WORST CASE SCENARIO

by John SMITH

2001-2003 / DV Cam / coul-n&b / son / 18' 45

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2008 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

Worst Case Scenario starts out as a series of still photographs depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. But as Sigmund Freud casts his long shadow across the city, the static world slowly and subtly comes to life and an increasingly improbable chain of events and relationships starts to emerge.

"This new work by John SMITH looks down onto a busy Viennese intersection and a corner bakery. Constructed from hundreds of still images, it presents situations in a stilted motion, often with sinister undertones. Through this technique we're made aware of our intrinsic capacity for creating continuity, and fragments of narrative, from potentially (no doubt actually) unconnected events." Mark Webber. London Film Festival catalogue.

"Smith's 30 years of eccentric, good-humoured and enlightening radical filmmaking have opened up endless possibilities for visual creativity. His Worst Case Scenario, comprising a stream of movie-like images from rapidly shot camera stills taken on a Vienna street corner, is an exquisite documentation of everyday waiting, eating and road-crossing, with just a whiff of Freud." Keith Gallasch, Realtime magazine

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	DV Cam (PAL)
original format	Beta Numérique
speed	25 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	son Mono
rental fee	55,00 €