Children are told not to look into the sun, to prevent their childish visual urge to discover from being limited by damaged eyesight. In contrast, THORAX fuels adolescent irrationality and curiosity, as a cinematic wormhole leading behind the images, where the sluggish
human eye is subject to a play of dazzling light.
Also in this combined programme
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A Proposal to project in Scope
Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees. -
The Machine
Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring. -
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
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
