Abstract patterns are created by concrete materials; there is no differentiation between nature and sign. Technological effects are achieved using simple means. A flashlight shines on a mirror, over which various liquids are poured. This phenomenon is projected onto the screen through the reflection of the projector light; abstract moving patterns are created. The image on the screen is the result of the travelling of the light, for we only see what the light transports. This is of course true of every film. The recourse to natural means such as water, light, and mirroring, the reduction to elements, and the departure from technology creates above all unexpected and yet fundamentally illuminating connections with minimal art, land art, arte povera. The same phenomenon can also take place in nature; the projection surfaces here are nature’s screens.
Also in this combined programme
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Some Thing / No Thing
A light, sound performance, the subject of which is the bare essence of the object cinema, with some surface noise. -
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Horror Film 1
Le Grice: ‘The intention with this as with my other shadow pieces, is to build a complex visual experience out of simple and readily available… -
Timelapse of Filmaktion
Time-lapse recording of Filmaktion in the Walker Art Gallery, filmed during a week in June 1973. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
