"Optica"
An Optical Illusion
A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?
Optical Sound
Do machines play music? Is there a difference between a dot matrix printer and a record turntable? Optical Sound, Taanila’s 2005 wide-screen interpretation of [The User]’s brutalist sound piece for an array of obsolete printers, depicts the devices ratcheting horizontally together in a stalled symphony, inkjets repeatedly blackening the same ar..
Optical Axis
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other.
Densité Optique I
"Densité Optique I" est structuré par deux gestes puissants : décomposition du temps et décomposition matérielle. La pellicule, le défilement du film, la matérialité de l’image sont mis en scène dans un ralenti extrême, photogramme par photogramme. Le temps ainsi décomposé n’est plus celui des images filmées, mais celui des photogr..
Eye Music
In a southern Mexico village, young deaf students are taking on an unusual challenge: to make a movie out of their dreams. While Eric and his friends watch films and discuss ideas, their dreams begin to work their way into the documentary itself. Both a study of the students lives and the basic visual language of film
chirurgie optique
Awarded Gold Prize at the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago.
