An investigation on circularity and experimental visual directions that relates current methodologies of shooting reality – possible today thanks to the use of common technology – and a seminal chapter from the 1970s international avant-garde.
MOVIES IN PROGRAM
360 EXPERIMENTAL FILM
2019, 2’
Director: Tarathorn Boonngamanong
Country: U.S.A.
Distribution: Tarathorn Boonngamanong
Original English version
Content posted on YouTube, the video documents usual moments of daily life filmed with a 360° camera. The multiplication of perceptual “spheres” multiplies points of view and fuels reflection on the distortion of the subject and its narrative implications.
LA RÉGION CENTRALE
180’, 1971
Director: Michael Snow
Country: Canada
Distribution: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Original English
PG18
Influential experimental film, La Région Centrale, is a three-hour long documentary shot in just five days in the mountains of northern Quebec, consisting of seventeen different shots of an uninhabited mountainous landscape. At first, the camera moves to capture its surroundings with slow, continuous gestures; over the course of the film, the movement grows building a narrative of images, circularity, and visual directions, questioning their own latent potential of conveying emotions.