Associative film about light, catching its impression in images and processing it into an image on the retina. Or as the filmmaker puts it: ‘De-electronation of a molecular entity as a result of photoexcitation. Light increases its oxidation state, at the same time it releases free radical electrons.‘
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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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.
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A Study in Natural Magic
Glowing germs and flowers colour this alchemical 16mm miniature. Pryce spins gossamer golden threads in the silent darkness of the cinema.
Film details
- Country of production
- Argentina
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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