360°. Experimental film. 10 min. Black & White. Stereo Sound. Germany. 2010
Director & Producer: Nadine Poulain. Más Media Production Kft.
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SYNOPSIS
The horizontal line constitutes the human point of of orientation and reference per se. It marks the capacity of mankind’s perceptional limits in space and intellect. In the film 360°, this line can be understood as a hinge, a hinge that binds opposites together.
Having taken inspiration from Romanticism and Casper David Friedrich, the film was shot on the well-known chalk cliffs on Ruegen. It follows a formalist set up of dividing the screen space in exactly two equal parts. This is done either by creating a sense of top and bottom or by reducing the picture to that one defining line.
Being accompanied by an industrial soundscape, 360° depicts an interplay between ocean and sky, above and below, black and white. Whilst the film draws heavily on the phenomenon of the afterimage and the reversal of opposites, it contemplates the very idea of the dialectical, of considering the side that is excluded.
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