Taking cues from Laughton's Night of the Hunter and JG Ballard, Pia Borg creates breathtakingly beautiful short, combining the iconic underwater death scene from the said movie and stop motion sequences. Plays part of First Look at MoMI.
Showing posts with label First Look 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Look 2016. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Frozen
Crystal World (2013) - Borg
Taking cues from Laughton's Night of the Hunter and JG Ballard, Pia Borg creates breathtakingly beautiful short, combining the iconic underwater death scene from the said movie and stop motion sequences. Plays part of First Look at MoMI.
Taking cues from Laughton's Night of the Hunter and JG Ballard, Pia Borg creates breathtakingly beautiful short, combining the iconic underwater death scene from the said movie and stop motion sequences. Plays part of First Look at MoMI.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Topography of Flesh
Meurtrière (2015) - Grandrieux
The second part of what Grandrieux conceived as trilogy (starting with White Epilepsy in 2012 and planned Unrest), Meurtrière/Murderess is another mesmerizing vertical mobile phone shot experiment. Your eyes gradually recognize human form in criminally underexposed images- the curvatures, concaves, female sex as they move in slow-mo. Distorted, muffled sound crawls to accompany tangle of naked bodies.
It's Caravaggio meets Munch meets Bacon. Slowwww cross-fades add another dimension to it, creating layers of flesh and movement on top of each other. The vertical canvas Grandrieux paints with these trained dancers as they gyrate, falling on top of one another, their light and dark skins contrast and accompany in graceful slow motion is quite intoxicating. Even though it is supposed to evoke or be about "anxiety", watching Meurtrière with all the lights off and plugged in is a beautiful, hypnotic experience.
Meurtrière plays part of First Look 2016 at Museum of Moving Image on 1/24. It is preceded by two shorts, Jet Lag and Lenz Elegy. Please visit MoMI website for more information.
The second part of what Grandrieux conceived as trilogy (starting with White Epilepsy in 2012 and planned Unrest), Meurtrière/Murderess is another mesmerizing vertical mobile phone shot experiment. Your eyes gradually recognize human form in criminally underexposed images- the curvatures, concaves, female sex as they move in slow-mo. Distorted, muffled sound crawls to accompany tangle of naked bodies.
It's Caravaggio meets Munch meets Bacon. Slowwww cross-fades add another dimension to it, creating layers of flesh and movement on top of each other. The vertical canvas Grandrieux paints with these trained dancers as they gyrate, falling on top of one another, their light and dark skins contrast and accompany in graceful slow motion is quite intoxicating. Even though it is supposed to evoke or be about "anxiety", watching Meurtrière with all the lights off and plugged in is a beautiful, hypnotic experience.
Meurtrière plays part of First Look 2016 at Museum of Moving Image on 1/24. It is preceded by two shorts, Jet Lag and Lenz Elegy. Please visit MoMI website for more information.
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