Lungta

Synopsis:

: Analogue image and sound composition.

:: Illusion of movement. Apparition. Dispersion. 

::: Lungta (horse wind, internal air).

Director’s notes:

A short experimental film that meditates on the illusion of movement in cinema. Created as an audiovisual score in time, the structure of the film is divided in three parts: figurative movement, apparition of the images and repetition. The film uses a single shot of 25 seconds in length, reconfigured into ten minutes. The shot, in which appears a horse on a field looking at the lens, was filmed many years back unknowingly using a malfunctioning Bolex camera. When the footage came back from the lab I encountered a single continuous image that did not distinguish individual frames. The camera plate had stopped working, therefore the film was not stable during exposition. At the time, I saw the footage as a failed intent and left it aside. Now, many years later, as I was going over my archives thinking about this commissioned piece, I find these images yet the passing of time has re signified my perception. The image takes over me, an apparition of a being that breathes and looks from an internal eye.

Lungta, or horse wind, is in Buddhist traditions the name of the horse archetype and it refers to an allegory of the human soul, symbolizing the spiritual and the metaphysical. Lungta evokes the internal air, the wild, the ephemeral.