Movements of an impossible time

Flatform

2011 | 00:08:14 | Italy | Italian | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Environment, Landscape, Music, Nature

An abandoned rural house, the Ravel Quartet in F major and then rain, wind, snow and fog are the elements of which this video is composed. In an impossible procession, one take presents four atmospheric agents to strike against the house. The musical instruments which follow the quartet each become an audio track which corresponds to each one of the atmospheric agents. So the sound of the first violin drips like the rain, that one of the second violin is muffled like the snow, the sound of the viola moves like the wind and that one of the cello vibrates like the fog.

In this work the causes of change are visible. The time of metamorphosis is concentrated or accelerated by the simultaneous status of its causes. As in music, in this video different atmospheric agents present themselves separately only to later achieve a meteorological chorus which is not seen in nature.

The sound, become solid, undergoes climate agents.

-- Flatform

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Premiere

International Venice Film Festival, Mostra del Cinema
Venice
2011

Exhibitions + Festivals

Stuttgarter Filmwinter Wand, Germany, 2014

Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada

Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway

Traverse Video, Toulouse, France

Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil

Vladivostok International Film Festival, Russia

Mire, Nantes, France

Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil

International Short Film Festival, Capalbio, Italy