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More an installation than a film but worth seeing for the feeling that losing touch with your sense of distance brings a couple of time in the 4 minutes
Watching a bit of spiel from Hansen as she set up her camera on the beach while nattering about hold the effects within the camera remove perspective from the landscape when viewed as a film, I braced myself for the worst. When the film opens with the land at the top and the sky at the bottom (ie, the footage upside down) I wondered how I would make it through four minutes of this film without leaving my home to beat the first art or dance student I could find from the local university. A few seconds into it though and I could see what she meant.
At times it was clear I was staring at the horizon upside down but, as the camera or elements of the landscape moved I did lose touch with what was close and what was far away, with some elements of the shot appearing to twist and get closer while others moved away a bit. So I sat interested for the whole four minutes even though that effect only hit me for about half the running time. I'm not sure if it fitted with the more "film" approach of many of the Animate! shorts because it did feel to me like it belonged more as an installation on a bigger screen and a constant loop.
So despite myself I found it quite interesting here and there and it did work within the narrow aims that Hansen seemed to have. Best viewed in a darkened room with a large TV though, because it is all about the non-effect visual effects that losing touch with your sense of distance brings.
At times it was clear I was staring at the horizon upside down but, as the camera or elements of the landscape moved I did lose touch with what was close and what was far away, with some elements of the shot appearing to twist and get closer while others moved away a bit. So I sat interested for the whole four minutes even though that effect only hit me for about half the running time. I'm not sure if it fitted with the more "film" approach of many of the Animate! shorts because it did feel to me like it belonged more as an installation on a bigger screen and a constant loop.
So despite myself I found it quite interesting here and there and it did work within the narrow aims that Hansen seemed to have. Best viewed in a darkened room with a large TV though, because it is all about the non-effect visual effects that losing touch with your sense of distance brings.
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- bob the moo
- Dec 22, 2006
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