AXIS
年份：2013
地区：加拿大
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更新：2020年08月16日
导演：John Kneller
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分类：短片
剧情介绍
Axis is an experimental film made through entirely photomechanical and photochemical means. All the shooting, editing and post-production work was done in the traditional film method. The film fits into the experimental sub-genre of “optical printer film.” Some practitioners who have inspired me include John Whitney, David Rimmer, Pat O’Neill, Al Razutis, Gary Popovich, Norman McLaren and Wally Howard. I mention Wally Howard because he was the in house optical technician at the NFB in Montreal. He did all the impossible optical work for McLaren, most famously, Pas de Deux (1968). He is an unsung hero of the optical printer!
Axis takes as its subject matter the mundane, faceless urban landscape with its gleaming towers and factories. The workaday humdrum… drones to the hive. So I take to the streets, with the homemade Bolex robot, affectionately known as “BOLBOT.” It is a time-lapse motion control machine that is capable of smoothly spinning through X-Y-Z axes continuously or in a stop/go arrangement. The resulting footage is a transformed view of the city, the urban scenes are in a continual state of exaggerated movement. A main idea of this film is to take mediated views of the hum-drum everyday and to elevate the city to a cosmic level. Everyday mandalas. The mandala is the final sequence of the film where all of elements of movement are optically sectioned to create symmetries. The film builds to this ending by introducing the elements that go into it one by one. Each element involves a specific optical printing technique as applied to the motion control capture of BOLBOT. It follows in this sequence…
1. Mirror Split Horizontal 2. High Contrast Manipulation Colour Work 3. Animated Travelling Matte
The city is thus transformed into a mandala-like creation, the idea is that the spectator connects with a more meditative, trancelike state. In any case, it’s a little break from the mechanical tick of everyday urban rhythms. The message of the film is to open one’s eyes and see the world in different ways. It is also an affirmation; to look at the world as a system of possibilities as opposed to a corporatized, faceless fa?ade.
Axis takes as its subject matter the mundane, faceless urban landscape with its gleaming towers and factories. The workaday humdrum… drones to the hive. So I take to the streets, with the homemade Bolex robot, affectionately known as “BOLBOT.” It is a time-lapse motion control machine that is capable of smoothly spinning through X-Y-Z axes continuously or in a stop/go arrangement. The resulting footage is a transformed view of the city, the urban scenes are in a continual state of exaggerated movement. A main idea of this film is to take mediated views of the hum-drum everyday and to elevate the city to a cosmic level. Everyday mandalas. The mandala is the final sequence of the film where all of elements of movement are optically sectioned to create symmetries. The film builds to this ending by introducing the elements that go into it one by one. Each element involves a specific optical printing technique as applied to the motion control capture of BOLBOT. It follows in this sequence…
1. Mirror Split Horizontal 2. High Contrast Manipulation Colour Work 3. Animated Travelling Matte
The city is thus transformed into a mandala-like creation, the idea is that the spectator connects with a more meditative, trancelike state. In any case, it’s a little break from the mechanical tick of everyday urban rhythms. The message of the film is to open one’s eyes and see the world in different ways. It is also an affirmation; to look at the world as a system of possibilities as opposed to a corporatized, faceless fa?ade.
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