Nominated for the EMAF Media Art Award of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk)

35mm
Without dialogue

Three locations, filmed over an extended period of time: Spain, a Baltic Sea resort in Lithuania, and a forest in Lower Austria. Rojo Žalia Blau expands the perception of landscape and its representation, questioning what we understand as a “natural” space. Shadows shift, and seemingly unreal colour palettes open up like lush bouquets of flowers or shimmering rainbows. Viktoria Schmid expands her reconstructions of analogue colour systems with an homage to glorious Technicolor. She shoots with 16mm colour negative film, running it three times through a Bolex camera and exposing it each time through different filters – red, green, and blue. The three layers of colour – and time – are recorded one on top of the other and precisely synchronised. In this way, three different spans of time are transformed into a new, fictional film time, which finally elapses only when the film is projected. Meanwhile, the soundtrack also blends the locations into a distinct auditory art-time. An artificial soundscape was recreated from field recordings – both recorded on location and supplemented by others. (Marius Hrdy)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Figures of Dissolution