This is an extract from a film installation in which optical sounds generated by the film cause vibrations in the screen’s surface, onto which the film is projected. Raw film was spooled into a spiral and dipped sideways into developer, so that only half the film was developed, leaving the trace of a time spiral. On projection, we hear a decelerating sound, as when catching your breath.
Also in this combined programme
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Man with Mirror
Spectacular in its simplicity, this Super-8 performance screened at the 30th anniversary edition of the festival. -
Views from Home
Changing sunlight filmed in the maker’s apartment, with saxophone sounds from the neighbours as a soundtrack. -
Soundtrack
Shot taken from the window of a moving train, used as a basis for a fascinating optical soundtrack. -
Vowels & Consonants
A 16mm performance with six projectors, in which letters that are printed straight onto the film are present in both sound and image. -
Cycles #3
A performance with two 16mm projectors in which spots stuck on the film function as basic material for hypnotic images and sound. -
Night Train
Time-lapse shortens train journey to two minutes, while the image also creates the optical soundtrack.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 1'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm