Nausea is a synthesis of text and image that draws inspiration from Impressionism, On Kawara, Barnett Newman and the existential diary of Jean-Paul Sartre, from which it adopts its title. The video footage is a journal of observations shot entirely on a mobile phone. Crudely low resolution, it retains a fuzzy warmth and familiarity rather than the cold and impersonal qualities of much digital technology, challenging – according to the director – ‘a certain end-point in cinema, wherein we only ever imagine and receive mediated images.’
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Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 54"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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