A Proposal to project in Scope
The 35mm CinemaScope format is pre-eminently suited to landscapes. Viktoria Schmid puts the surroundings out of frame, turning the screen into a sculpture in the dunes. Widescreen emptiness becomes a projection surface for an interplay between light and shadow, sun and trees.
Also in this combined programme
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The Machine
Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring. -
THORAX
Informed by Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema,THORAX is an ingenious game with dazzling light, stroboscopic flickering and matching sound. -
Making a Diagonal with Music
Short film about Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a pioneer of musique concrète. Featuring creaking doors and more. -
TESTFILM #1
Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system? -
Further Radical
Slices of black radish on unexposed film lead to effective explosions of light right through the dark, photochemical emulsion.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Austria, Lithuania
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
