Teräväreunaisten siirtymämerkkien surullinen laulu / Sad Song of the Hard Edge Transition Wipe Markers

Teräväreunaisten siirtymämerkkien surullinen laulu / Sad Song of the Hard Edge Transition Wipe Markers. Part III.

Tampere Film Festival
Kotimainen kilpailu 10
P32 | 10.3. FRI/PE 12:00 | PLEVNA 5
L13 | 11.3. SAT/LA 14:00 | PLEVNA 2

TERÄVÄREUNAISTEN SIIRTYMÄMERKKIEN SURULLINEN LAULU
SAD SONG OF THE HARD-EDGE TRANSITION WIPE MARKERS

Mika Taanila | Finland 2017 | Experimental, animation | 3 min

TFF: Early 1950s newsreel laboratory marker films used for indicating effects like wipes, dissolves and fade-outs in the work print, now freed from their utilitarian practice.

1950-luvun uutisfilmeissä käytetyt tekniset laboratorio-merkinnät vapautuvat alkuperäisestä rationaalisesta funktiostaan. TFF

AA: From the Finnish wizard of artists' cinema Mika Taanila, a new work of material cinema, making visible the element of film-making intended to remain invisible for everybody except the laboratory staff. Based on markers used by the Lii-Filmi company in the 1950s, this is a study in three parts of looping, changing patterns, and the rhythms of repetition of those markers. With an industrial soundtrack. A meta film, a meditation on perception.

Mika Taanila's new filmic foray into epistemology, turning the look into the act of perception itself.