1997A (Arrival)


Rental Format(s): Super 8mm, 24 fps

"Polta's film renders a subtle spectral impressionism via tenuous images of space, form, and color in disembodied flux." - New York Film Festival, Views From the Avant-Garde

This film is composed of several long-duration static-camera shots, taken from within a densely traveled urban location, laid over a bed of shifting/ambient sound.

Abstracted from their source, colors drift languidly across the screen, pooling, accumulating and evaporating with no regard for (or notice by) the occasional passing silhouetted figure. The audio track presents a soundscape of fluid sounds of transit, reverberating and evolving, suggesting both passage and constancy.

The combined effect is a film which is less a document (i.e. is not dependent on recognition or description) and more of a sensual experience - a transformation of the screening space into an intense amniotic environment of visual and sonic texture.

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Super 8mm, 24 fps $35.00  

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