Above: Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream?In the short films of Romanian-born, Paris-based filmmaker Diana Vidrascu, locations are anything but stagnant. Eroding the familiar and surveying the unexplored, Vidrascu’s inquiries seek to expose the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, interrogate the camera’s ability to present, and question our reliance on certain structures of seeing. In her latest work, Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019), Vidrascu deconstructs and reconfigures her own film negatives into a formal exploration of the tectonic activity simmering beneath the Azores archipelago’s volcanic islands. Sitting alongside discussions with locals and the mechanical probing of infrared stills, the vivid eruption-resembling sequence stands as a memorable collision of documentary and structuralist modes.Vidrascu’s earlier works Silence of the Sirens (2019) and What Time is Made Of (2017) chart more personally-charged investigations that ultimately weave around the experiences of others—the former exploring the Greek myth and...
- 1/10/2020
- MUBI
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