Build from Here (Video Room) (2024), holds Tillmans’ interests in video images and music-making in dialogue while showcasing his experiments in the relationship between sound and movement. The video features tracks from the artist’s album, Build From Here, (released April 26th, 2024) combined with footage compiled during the installation of his exhibition, The Point Is Matter, at David Zwirner, Hong Kong in 2024. The work centres on ideas of fluidity, connectivity, movement, and the porous nature of human relations. Materiality and ephemerality are held in tension as the film rests on views of the sun setting or the transitions of the moon; of the waves hitting a beach and close-up footage of an industrial offset printer in action; the rigidity of steel re-bar and the frenetic energy of connected highways. In the opening sequences, we see Tillmans himself, shot at moonrise, silhouetted on a beach as the full moon illuminates the ocean. Wielding a large stick, his improvised movements articulate and exaggerate a body in space, drawing his presence, as a gesture toward the enormity of the cosmos. In the words of the songs, we hear corresponding sentiments. We hear about the simultaneous inadequacy and perfect simplicity of language, the chemical and physical impulses that define our connection to one another, and a sense of hopefulness that the tools we use to connect - and the understanding we glean in the process - will sustain us. In our microcosmic struggles to be understood and be seen, we are located at the grandest possible scale in this work. A repeated sequence shows telescopic imagery of the surface of the moon, shot in real-time, revealing the rotation of the earth as the heavenly body gradually moves across the screen. The film insists that the intricacies of existence, their material and political realities, as well as their immaterial and ineffable conundrums, are of the largest significance. In sound and vision, we are inscribed in a cosmic realisation of the self.