1988 | Canada | Short

Scaling

  • 5 mins
  • Director | Mike Hoolboom
  • Writer | Mike Hoolboom
  • Producer | Emmanuel Lefrant

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling, humorous presentation of cinematic impermanence. A naked man (Hoolboom), tilted 90 degrees by the camera angle, paints a black shape on a white wall; meanwhile, in a second, superimposed image, he re-paints it in white. Our eye and mind struggle to figure out which act came first, for all positive and negative values in the frame are completely reversible.

Experimental Impermanence Cinematic Materiality Meditative
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