V~

Manuel Knapp | Austria | 2013 | 10' |

| IFFR 2014

V~ is about the forces of numerical matter. Shapes, figures and lines form a three-dimensional object moving through an infinite space, an old life form that has been creeping and eating its way steadily through dark space since time began. An organic geometry thriller.

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