Description
Film Still No 1 Sky Lines
Experimental film. 9.55 min. Black & White. Surround Sound. Serbia. 2013
Director & Sounddesigner: Nadine Poulain
Audio Postproduction: Jacopo Vannini
Production: Milan Milosavljević. Academic Film Center SCCC Serbia
S Y N O P S I S The subjects of the film Sky Lines are the colour black and the white light reflected from man made lines drawn across the sky. Together with a high pitch sound, these lines establish a sense of suspense and instability as they shift in and out of vision, creating constantly changing formal compositions. The film was realised with the supported of the Academic Film Centre SCCC Serbia.
T H E S E N S A T I O N A L L U C I F E R (excerpt) Slowly, the continued darkness reveals a fragile and broken line that spans across our field of vision, whilst our senses are penetrated by a high, unearthly sound. This mechanical chattering that twitters irritatingly on the edge of hearing, rising and falling in volume, there and not there, demands our full attention and as a sound we are reminded of the earlier force of the explosion – unreal, manmade and synthetic.
What unfolds thereafter could be described as a highly aesthetic and beautiful death driven fear of nothingness, of the end of things. As formal sets of choreographed lines slowly play across the screen, space and perception alter continuously and a sense of suspense and instability manifests itself. We are witnessing a dance of death that cuts the heavens into portions and having divided it up, fades away just to be replaced.
Complete text by Douglas Allsop
With its spatial constructions and its formations of lines, ‘Sky Lines’ is reminiscent of Russian avant-garde artists, such as Malewitsch, Rodtschenko and Popowa (also of objects of Brancusi) – a suprematist film poem of its time.
Egbert Hörmann Berlinale Selection Committee 2014
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