MOUNTAIN VIEW
CANYON CINEMA • 2m 38s
MOUNTAIN VIEW thinks about framing, movement, surface and depth. The film consists of three continuous zooms towards a landscape that are deconstructed into a discontinuous sequence of single frames. Movement is exposed as an illusion of twenty-four static frames per second, the organic movement of the hand dissolved into structural variation. The world seen through the window frame appears as an image, a phantasmatic reality that becomes more and more unstable the closer the mountains appear (until it all disappears).
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