Space-Time-Dog

Around 1870, Eadweard Muybridge proved with his serial photography that when a horse gallops, all four legs are in the air for a brief moment, thus laying the foundation for cinematography. A good 140 years later, Nikolaus Eckhard freed his four-legged friend from gravity altogether and allowed him to take off from the treadmill while harnessed to the apparatus. A series of spatiotemporal stretching exercises are required to achieve this miracle: In the highly concentrated Gyre, a room whose openings correspond to the image formats of the movie screen rotates around its vertical axis.

CLUSTER shifts the spatial and temporal coordinates of a recording of a fire and Hanasaari tests the transition from the industrial to the digital age. Uniform objects roll across the ceiling in Oppl's corridor. Finally freed from gravity, we find ourselves between dizziness and lightness in Parallax and Endeavour, before Fruhauf's intoxicating vortex of images finally sucks us into the dimension in which we come upon the spatiotemporal dog. (Gerald Weber)

Program
Gyre (Björn Kämmerer, AT 2010, 9 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1847/
CLUSTER (Rainer Gamsjäger, AT 2010, 12 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1867/
Hanasaari A (Hannes Vartiainen/Pekka Veikkolainen, FI 2009, 15 min.)
Parallax (Inger Lise Hansen, AT/NO 2009, 5 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1800/
Korridor (Bernd Oppl, AT 2009, 4 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2388/
Endeavour (Johann Lurf, AT 2010, 16 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1874/
Palmes d‘or (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, AT 2009, 9 min.)
SpaceTimeDog (Nikolaus Eckhard, AT 2010, 6 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1869/