Waves is one of a series of video pieces in which everything happens at the edges of the frame. The action is minimal: waves are built up and then unfurl again. With his austere reductions of the medium, Payne achieves a conceptual rigour and yet retains a playful element.
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Touching Sound
Found-footage video of a woman opening Pandora’s box. Strange, radioactive sound waves affect the film’s surface and the character’s hands -
The Modernist
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J
A reclusive cartographer briefly engages into a dialogue with a woman. The whole world shivers when these two people get close.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Other
