The first film Rekveld composed according to methods he still uses to structure films. Featuring images created by recording the movements of a tiny light source with extremely long exposure times, so it draws traces on the photographic emulsion. The light is part of a simple mechanical system that exhibits chaotic behaviour.
Also in this combined programme
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#2
Hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day, linking this to how film as a medium captures and radiates light. -
VRFLM
A short study for the optical printer, based on found footage of fire, on coloured light from the printer and photochemical manipulations of the emuls -
#7
Essentially a slow evolution from black to white, this film is an articulation of the old idea of Aristotle’s that colours arise from the clash between… -
#5
Through images made by using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials, #5 can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light. -
#11, Marey <-> Moiré
Featuring images generated by revisiting the chronophotographic techniques of Étienne-Jules Marey, this film deals with the discontinuity
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1994
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
