Metastasen. 16:01 min., b&w, 1984. By Igor and Gleb Aleinikov. Ubuweb's description:
The Brothers Igor and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to the first generation of independent filmmakers in the Soviet Union, who no longer worked within the studio system, but founded the 'Parallel Cinema'. Their films, like Western experimental film in the 60s, deliberately refused to conform to professional standards, and were thus rejected not only officially, but also by many filmmakers.
I've been stuck on Metastasen
for a while, totally unsure how to approach it. I've finally come to
settle on "something to project onto the wall during your most outré
parties." Really, how else can one get a foothold on such an accretion
of found imagery? You've got bug-covered mules, cars and military
processions in negative, bodies in the street, kids in school uniform
saluting, aerobicize class, karate matches and an oddly Nick Bergian
(though somewhat more realistic) sheep-beheading sequence. Much of it's
taken from television by actually aiming a film camera at a TV screen
and some of it's on damaged film, creating what academics might call a
"distancing" effect.Ultimately, I suppose this comes to one of those exercises in decontextualization
and
juxtaposition, and it turns out to work surprisingly well when viewed
that way. The image and sound have nothing to do with each other at the
beginning and drift farther and farther apart as the minutes pass. Not
that any visuals could to justice to the mélange of tinny,
beepy quasi-reggae beats topped with Planet-X operatic vocalizing and
slowed-down, sped-up, reversed and turntable-scratched stern Russian
speech. The dissonance grows nightmarish. Again, throwing a dissonant
nightmare party? Here's your ambiance.
This effects in photography is called the roling shutter. because the first and last line of the frame have an delay of reading the footage of the sensor. it can be found on all webcam based cmos sensors and dslr-reflex camera's...
but i'd like to know who wrote this plug-in. is it for after effects? fusio, combustion???
hope some jap will use this effect in his new scary to death movie like the grudge.
Posted by: acecard | February 24, 2010 at 03:39 AM