Jan Dibbets begins with an image of the sky, then moves the camera down and films a field in undulating movements. The horizon swings diagonally and the field fills the image. With his camera movements and unusual cropping of the image, Dibbets here moulds the flat landscape into mountains. (LIMA)
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Slide
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1971
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 1'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
