Twist, Topple, Turn, Twiddle #2

Fasten your seatbelts and level those dolly tracks!

Twist, Topple, Turn, Twiddle is an abstract experimental film program centered on movement. Each edition explores a different kind of motion—turning, tilting, panning, falling—offering a boundary-pushing approach to exploring experimental short films. 
Twist, Topple, Turn, Twiddle invites anyone eager to dive into visual experimentation in film and art, letting the senses take the lead.
For Topple - the second part of wysiwyg's quadriptych guest program at Flora - we will be focusing on flipping, reflecting, and the upsidedown. Welcome to topsy-turvey town, where cameras decides your perspective, showing us different ways to express, inspire, and bewilder.

Feeling down? Turn that frown upside down! Topple features six different short films from artists and filmmakers who use the camera in their own creative and unusual way.

The program:

Two Skies 
Lukas Marxt
DE | 2013 | 5 Minutes
Two Skies disallows any and all shift in perspective and shows two horizons of a gas field, filmed from a drilling platform in the Tampen area in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea at two different times of day: dawn and dusk. A surreal landscape that departs from dimension of terrestrial reality extends across the whole width of the space. The muffled monumental sound, the penetrating blue and the flashing white waves transport the viewer to a place that cannot exist in this way. Two ocean surfaces from ground and sky, strictly separated by a dynamic horizon. Perhaps this horizon is an entrance to other surrounding, to landscapes that lead away from this scenario. Lukas Marxt employs the elements of water and wind here as tools in the production of his picture. Wind power moves the deep blue ocean surfaces that seemingly can become a dangerous vortex within a matter of seconds.

Downside Up
Tony Hill
UK | 1984 | 18 Minutes
Born in London in 1946, Tony Hill is sometimes called the godfather of British structuralist film. With a single camera movement, his Downside Upexplores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground, flipping like a tossed coin, which then slows again to oscillate around the Earth’s edge.

Otros Usos 
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
PR | 2014 | 7 Minutes
Shot from the old fuel dock, a mile and a half long struc- ture once used to service battleships and now used by fishermen as a new shore at the now decommissioned US Naval Base of Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The view from the dock is on one side the Island of Vieques, and on the other; Vieques Sound a passage that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. The film is shot through mirrored objects built to break the camera’s depiction of space. They are simple seeing machines, Malascopios, somethign built to see wrongly.

Amérika: Bahía de las Flechas
Ana Vaz
DO | 2016 | 9 Minutes
It is said that in the year of 1492, the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus, disembarked on the coast of Samaná, present-day Dominican Republic, and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno. Presently, a saline lake named after the Taíno chief Enriquillo witnesses profound eco-systemic changes leading to species migration, forced evacuation and an expanding coral desert revealing the lake’s geologic past. Taking the camera itself as an arrow, a foreign body, Amérika: Bay of Arrows looks for ways in which to animate, to awaken, to make vibrate again this gesture in the present - arrows against a perpetual “falling sky”.

Travelling Fields
Inger Lise Hansen
NO/RU | 2009 | 9 Minutes
Travelling Fields is filmed on a number of locations in Murmansk and Monchegorsk in Northwest Russia. The film observes various topographies and architectural elements in the landscape. It is shot in places such as abandonned construction sites, a field by a factory and an empty car market.