TERRA INCOGNITA

by Stephanie MAXWELL

2001 / Beta SP / coul / son / 4' 30

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 collaborative work is a fusion of imaginary and music expressing an everchanging flux and paradox in perceived space and location and involving notions of navigation, geometry, and mapping.The animated imagery derives from hand painting and etching on 35 mm clear and black motion picture film. While digitizing, the film was physically bent, twisted, rotated and treated to a number of hands-on manipulations. The images then underwent further visual transformation in digital post production.The music was largely an intuitive process. the basic sound sources including thumb piano, pigmy pipe and gamelan metallophone tones, were digitally transformed and then contrapuntully layered, intercut, diced and threaded into a pulsating «spider web» design suggested by a visual imagery.

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	Beta SP 1 reel
speed	25 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	son
rental fee	19,00 €