Stupor, 2024. Short slow-motion film, full HD, color/sound, 16 min., → Deichtorhallen Hamburg produced by → Fuenferfilm
A life threatening moment depicted as a shared reenactment on a surface of ice: A moment of «something about to happen» stretched in time.
In the short film Stupor, a traumatizing attack, recounted by a voice off-screen, is anticipated and thereby narrowly averted. The film is set in a dark, eerie ice rink where several people come into view via slow-motion camera movements. Video and audio seem to run on separate tracks, their synthesis engendering strange hallucinatory effects in the viewer’s mind. Any attempt at solidifying presumptions—casting a specific body in the role of the victim or the perpetrator—are undermined, become fluid, and congeal only momentarily. Ultimately, the mounting suspense of the narrative is disappointed and the figures become legible simply as bodies that, for the moment, inhabit the same time and space.
Stupor, 2024. Short slow-motion film, full HD, color/sound, 16 min., → Deichtorhallen Hamburg produced by → Fuenferfilm
A life threatening moment depicted as a shared reenactment on a surface of ice: A moment of «something about to happen» stretched in time.
In the short film Stupor, a traumatizing attack, recounted by a voice off-screen, is anticipated and thereby narrowly averted. The film is set in a dark, eerie ice rink where several people come into view via slow-motion camera movements. Video and audio seem to run on separate tracks, their synthesis engendering strange hallucinatory effects in the viewer’s mind. Any attempt at solidifying presumptions—casting a specific body in the role of the victim or the perpetrator—are undermined, become fluid, and congeal only momentarily. Ultimately, the mounting suspense of the narrative is disappointed and the figures become legible simply as bodies that, for the moment, inhabit the same time and space.