Winding germs and glowing flowers colour this alchemical 16mm miniature. Pryce spins gossamer golden threads in the silent darkness of the cinema. The book The Mirror of Alchemy from 1597 states: ‘The gold obtained through this art surpasses natural gold in all its attributes both medically and in every other way.’
Also in this combined programme
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Creme 21
Dynamic cut-ups of found footage from dated educational and scientific films. What is now and what is time?
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Blue
Ode to the unique blue of the discontinued Kodak Ektachrome. A clear blue California sky made of clouds of film grain.
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Photooxidation
Associative film about light, catching its impression in images and processing it into an image on the retina.
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45 7 Broadway
Yesterday’s film technique applied to today’s space. NYC’s Times Square turned into a red, green and blue light show.
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Dot Matrix
Dizzying expanded cinema consists of a 16mm projection of double the number of dot patterns and a deafening noise caused by those same dots.
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Konrad & Kurfurst
Fictional re-enactment on home-brewed emulsion of a five-minute happening that took place during the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 3"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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