PASSE-PARTOUT

by Stephanie MAXWELL

2002 / Beta SP / coul / son / 6' 00

Watch an extract the online video
This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2009 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

This abstract film/musical composition conjures an atmosphere in which an aerial mobile is magically suspended in three-dimentional space. The floating pendants of the mobile each reveal a mysterious world filled with unique visual and aural forms, movements and gestures. The visuals have been created using hand-cut animated mattes in combination with hand-painted and etched clear and black 35 mm motion picture film. These images were then digitalized, visually transformed and manipulated, composited and post produced.
The computer-generated music consists of continuous variations and transformations of a seemingly simple but open-ended harmonic theme that caroms through many key centers. However, this theme takes shape gradually, and is heard most clearly in a choral setting only after all five «protagonists» of the work have been introduced.

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	Beta SP 1 reel
speed	25 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	son Stéréo
rental fee	22,00 €