A specially designed waterwheel interacts with strobe light, synchronized with two 35mm cameras recording the scenery in stereoscopy. Our perception is tricked twice in a single moment: the illusion of the moving image is created in camera, while the illusion of standstill is forced by the strobe light onto the patterns of the waterwheel.
Also in this combined programme
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This Action Lies
This Action Lies is about the limits of observation; about staring very hard at something while listening to something else. -
Printed Sunset
The Hollywood trope of a couple gazing at a romantic sunset, deconstructed and transformed into a novel beauty. -
Kiss the Sky – Eye Trick the I
Visually attractive essay on trompe-l’oeil, deception, privileges, seductions and false freedoms. How to live in the post-privacy age? -
Aykan
Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
