2009 | United States | Short

FLORENCE

  • - - 10 mins
  • Director | Beryl Korot
  • Writer | Beryl Korot
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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I sit at my computer cutting up real time footage of waterfalls, snow storms, boiling water. I combine these to make threads of moving images. I look and listen to the result in front of me and I think of people whose actions transcend fear—not in a momentary instinctual way—but over a sustained period of time. The name Florence Nightingale comes to mind, a woman whose name has become a cliche but of whom I know so little. I order books of her writings from Amazon and select phrases spread over hundreds of pages to make a soliloquy or poem. We collaborate. Words float vertically down the screen with its own position, transparency and speed. A slow sense of reading, time and sound unfolds.

I sit at my computer cutting up real time footage of waterfalls snow storms boiling water. I combine these to make threads of moving images. I look and listen to the result in front of me and I think of people whose actions transcend fear—not in a momentary instinctual way—but over a sustained period of time. The name Florence Nightingale comes to mind a woman whose name has become a cliche but of whom I know so little. I order books of her writings from Amazon and select phrases spread over hundreds of pages to make a soliloquy or poem. We collaborate. Words float vertically down the screen with its own position transparency and speed. A slow sense of reading time and sound unfolds.
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