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original titel:
3 filme: baum 3 tage, georg balkon 3 tage, basler platz (tag/nacht)
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Year:
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1998 |
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Country:
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Austria
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Length:
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09:00 min |
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Premiere:
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1999 / Austria |
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Medium:
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Film |
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Category:
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Avantgarde/Arts |
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Orig lang.:
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no dialogue |
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Synopsis
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3 films: tree 3 days
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People who saw early cinema films were fascinated by the ‚natural‘ movement on the screen, the swirls of smoke, water or leaves which moved with the wind.
Film 1: Leaves ‚move in the film (because of the film). Single frames stop the movement photographically and then give them fictive movement again. ( This is true of every film, but here the process is rendered visible). Time flow is dislocated - later becomes earlier. The edges flutter. The film becomes a kinetic freeze frame.
Film 2: On the left hand side of the frame a man sits reading. But it is difficult to radically fragment the human body into single frames. He remains a reader ( turning the pages of a newspaper, even while he is reading a book). The gaze of the camera reveals identity and duration.
Film 3 is a complex orchestration of picture and light in layers - trees, buildings, squares and streets (moving cars), sky, clouds and street lights. Day and night function like ‚ on‘ and ‚off‘. The evening sky, night and black film material. The camera gazes through a window ( and thereby doubles the framing element) Later in the film the reflection in the window pane shows the interior of a room lying behind the camera - a cameo appearance. The film maker adjusts the camera.
Thomas Draschan’s films also relate to early cinema in the sense that each film (when it succeeds) repeats experiences with the medium itself and re-invents film. Here, the exercise of watching film and seeing film is constructed in the camera with craftsman-like exactitude. The order of the experiment: abab (1) and aabbcc (2) and aabbss (3) where ‚s‘ stands for an unexposed frame.
There is no sound, but why shouldn‘t the eyes dance with the pleasure of seeing these film?
Birgit Flos
Printgrafik: draschan_3 filme.jpg
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