The cast is in flux – the animate and the inanimate get double billed with that dynamic duo – Push and Pull. If matter has consciousness and has renounced movement as Henri Bergson suggests in order to conserve energy, then here we have a dramatic apostasy. A broken vow of stasis, a flood of energy. What beautiful instability and pulsation – a floating world off a hinge drawn through invisible bellows, exhaled, exultant. Figure and ground (such a quaint term for what we really see) do a slow motion see saw on shifting tectonic plates. Fold into Cézanne – like origami. If this dance weren’t so meticulous, so slow, so molecular, it would describe a calamity. But in fact this happens everyday, every moment in the blink of an eye. Tilts with perfect pitch. The eponymous Flo moves slanted and enchanted down a street in Taormina, Italy – as casual, momentous and as `on time’ as the Arrival of the Train At Ciotat that rounded the corner of another century. A landmark work. (M.M.)
Also in this combined programme
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Aurora Street
Looking out through the window one autumn morning when passing time moves the soul and the heating can be turned on again. -
Aquatica
A head-trip to the nether reaches of Neptune’s haunts where tourists glide through guts of glass to ooh and aah at the mysteries of the… -
The Back Steps
A brief moment from my kids’ Halloween party presents an opportunity for a painterly exploration of folded time. (LP) -
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Treeline
A minimalistic video, a kind of repetitous stammering with complex variations in rhyme and locomotion. -
Omen
An antiphon of beckoning. A summons to the underworld of faraway interiors. -
Color Study
A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colours, motion and space from a few frames of road-side autumn panorama in upstate New York. -
The Living Room
The Living Room digitally dramatises and multiplies chosen manifestations and implications of ‘On/Off’ and/or ‘Absence/Presence’.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL