Blog entries and flickr photos interact with satellite imagery to give a re-shaped conception of what space and distances between people effectively means in a networked world. The result is not an unveiling of the ‘blue marble’ image of the earth as viewed from outer space, but an attempt to describe the ‘flat’ earth as viewed from the internet.
Also in this combined programme
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Sinus Aestum
The title refers to the name of a lunar sea. Accordingly, this piece is comprised of arcs, or waves, moving through unstable states.
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Three Blueprints (Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta)
266144 photos are extremely compressed in clusters again and again to almost unimaginable nano-dimensions; then filtered to their last essence.
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Electron Jumps
An updated visualisation of a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations.
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Powers of Ten
This short documentary film depicts the relative scale of the Universe. A camera reproduces in equal steps the picture of a couple during a picknick.
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Optra Field IV
An elegant, dichromatic time-based drawing that explores the propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites.
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Staubkaskade
Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures. Dust is the mathematical description for a set of non-connected points.
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Iris Out
Composed of single frames from sequences of expanding or contracting irises, this video was reformatted for different aspect ratios.
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Bigger than Big
How big is big? This spectacular film takes us on a journey from the Moon’s surface to the far reaches of the visible universe.
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The Life Size Zoetrope
The celebratory life story of one man, from the celebration of creativity to its eventual loneliness, regret and repetition.
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Energy Shifts
This animation represents a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations.
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Land of Cockaigne
In one continuous camera movement, Reupke presents a god’s eye view of the Sussex Downs, punctuated with choreographed incidents of human activity.
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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