Twist Topple Turn Twiddle 4

Steadicam? Never heard of it!

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 Twiddle—the fourth and final part of wysiwyg's quadriptych guest program at Flora—we will be focusing on swift and wobbly movements only. Neurotic trembling, concise fluttering, and concise shakes.

Artist and filmmaker Alexandre Alagôa will be present at the screening.

Program

Uchronia no.1
Kamila Kuc
UK | 2020 | 4 Minutes

Past time, suspended time. Macro vision serves as a tool to experience what has long been known. Perceptual tension between the in and out of focus, between enquiry and observation, abstraction and representation persuade the body to look and experience more intently. At once disturbing and nostalgic, the soundtrack lures the viewer into a claustrophobic and apocalyptic space as we have to find new ways of being with the world. Filmed and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Waterlow Park, London and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire.

Brouillard #14
Alexandre Larose
CA | 2012/2013 | 10 Minutes

(In brouillard), walking trajectories from Larose’s parents’ house into a lake nearby are superimposed onto a 1000-foot strip of 35 mm color reversal film. With the aperture just slightly opened, only the brightest spots of each walk leave a trace on the strip. On the screen we see a landscape of pulsating light that is both concrete and abstract at the same time, drawing attention to the material and chemical processes of the medium as well as the visceral qualities these can produce. A phantom ride where the phantom seems to be both the camera that registers as well as the world it records.

Vertigo Rush
Johann Lurf
AT | 2007 | 19 Minutes

In the interplay of nature and (optical) machine, the hidden becomes visible. The film consists of a series of dolly zooms: a succession of camera movements captured in individual images of forward and backward motion, while simultaneously zooming in the opposite direction. Drawing upon Hitchock’s familiar “Vertigo” effect, Johann Lurf isolates the iconic technique and creates a technically extravagant experiment on perception. Accelerating this pendulum movement, at first gently and later drastically, intensifies the optical illusion of the space shifting together - and smoothly hands it over to the abstract, transferred to a "dissolving" image. 

When I Close My Eyes I See Everything
Alexandre Alagôa
PT | 2022 | 13 Minutes

Establishing a continuous dialogue between physiological studies of the aural and visual fields with the territory of experimental cinema, Alagôa explores how certain precise and nuanced stimulations of the human sensory receptors can have an immediate impact on our nervous system, piercing it, destabilizing it, ripping it to shreds, breaking its gravitational point. From perpetually fluid hand-held and improvised camera movements, to the use of rain, glass, plastics, leaves and dirt as lens filters, to a careless and sudden shift between long and quick shutter speeds, When I Close My Eyes evokes the world of entoptic phenomena so inherent to our perceptual organism. The result is displayed through a universe of phosphenes, purkinje trees, after-images and other closed-eye imagery resembling a pilgrimage through infinite space, exploding stars, unhabited galaxies and erupting supernovas, so unveiling a whole original cosmology inside each and every single one of us.

Orbit
Giuseppe Boccassini
DE | 2016 | 15 Minutes

A reflexion about the extremely loud and the incredibly close. Orbit brings back images for a far-off era, made of spatial conquests and scientific discoveries, testimony to the fascinations and dreams of the human species before September 11th. In 15 minutes Orbit leads us through a hallucinatory tunnel where time and space merge together and where the viewer crosses the threshold into another