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A Physical Ring

A Physical Ring

Fysikaalinen rengas

Mika Taanila | Finland | 2002 | 4' |

| IFFR 2003

Raw material from an anonymous Finnish physics experiment is assembled into a piece of kinetic fantasy. An integral part of the piece is the haunting soundtrack by Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic.

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