The Place of Time

The film consists of a sequence of shots with a linear spatial and temporal continuity. Each shot is motionless, with no panning or travelling of the camera. The camera´s position keeps moving to the right throughout the entire film. In this way a topographical recording of the area is created apparently without consideration of what is going on there. Events, people, places appear and disappear, without consideration of their own importance and logic, because the picture´s progression is subject to its own rhythm. It is the cinema-topographic strictness that makes the events fragmentary. The shifting frame becomes a shifting...

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Orig. Title
Der Ort der Zeit
Year
1985
Country
Austria
Duration
40 min
Director
Hans Scheugl
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
German
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