DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

by Wenhua SHI new filmmaker
2013-2016 / color / sound / 1S / 6' 00

This work is a homage to Marcel Duchamp’s NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE. Created 100 years after the original piece, it is a meditation on the mechanical nature of cinema/ Moving Images, through its dynamic movement and fragmentation. The footage was captured at an apartment building in Beijing, China.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 29,976 fps
sound sound
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distribution format 35mm
screen 1,85 - Panoramic (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound optical sound
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