SOMMOVIMENTI

by Paolo GIOLI
2009 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 1S / 10' 00

SOMMOVIMENTI is a film completely excavated by rephotographing rolls of 35mm negative containing images made with the photo-finish (slit scan) technique, the so-called foto-lunga which has no frame line and therefore no individual frames. This sort of proto-film was born not as a film, but as a photograph; I caused it to transmigrate—using a horizontal scanning motion of the filmstrip typical of photo-finish—into a film, thus betraying its natural verticality. I rephotographed the photofinish negative through the gate of an old 35mm movie camera causing it to advance using the crank handle at a velocity interpolated between the crank handle [of the old 35mm movie camera] and that of my own [16mm] movie camera. I was interested in seeing figures transformed which had been destined to remain motionless and to see them reanimated.

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distribution format 16mm
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 18 fps
sound silent
rental fee 74,00 €

distribution format 16mm
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 18 fps
sound silent
rental fee 74,00 €