Strata Series One @ Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2007

Pre­sen­ta­tion: Cross­ing Europe Film­fes­ti­val 2007 /// 
Wed, April 25 2007, 15:30 /// 
Sun, April 29 2007, 16:00 ///

STRATA SERIES is an exper­i­men­tal audio-video series that was filmed in var­i­ous loca­tions in Linz. Part 1 takes place in the Plus City, a shop­ping mall not far away form Linz.

A seem­ing­ly fixed cam­era posi­tion over­looks the bleak­ness of aban­doned places. Only by pro­longed view motion is per­ceiv­able: the cam­era takes 24 min­utes to turn 360 °. Like frag­ments of mem­o­ry the frames break the sta­t­ic lin­ear­i­ty of move­ment of the places.

The project deals with dif­fer­ent the­o­ret­i­cal approach­es by Guy Debord, Paul Vir­ilio, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guat­tari. Accord­ing to Vir­ilio, the urban space is main­ly char­ac­ter­ized by exces­sive speed. On the one hand STRATA SERIES is an attempt of extreme decel­er­a­tion in pic­ture and sound. On the oth­er hand it gives a hint of extreme accel­er­a­tion in the decel­er­a­tion itself. It is all about lay­er­ing and over­lap­ping, con­cern­ing the social as well as archi­tec­tur­al in pic­ture and sound.

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(Pho­tos: qujOchÖ)

(Regie/Drehbuch/Kamera/Schnitt: Mag­nus Hofmüller, Ingo Ran­dolf, Andre Zogholy (HRZ))

(Regie/Drehbuch/Kamera/Schnitt: Mag­nus Hofmüller, Ingo Ran­dolf, Andre Zogholy (HRZ))