A short documentary about my struggle to capture beauty without a camera.
This is my third attempt at camera-less filmmaking. This time I was trying to seize the magnificence of a mystical and magical land: Abisko. A village in northern Sweden, roughly 250 km within the Arctic Circle, and near Abisko Scientific Research Station.
In this film, the narrator insists on the beauty of this land, trying to verbally describe the fantastic natural scenes that he sees and at the same time, he keeps apologising for not having the camera with him. He is almost ashamed of his inability to capture and share this beauty with his audience.
This is my third attempt at camera-less filmmaking. This time I was trying to seize the magnificence of a mystical and magical land: Abisko. A village in northern Sweden, roughly 250 km within the Arctic Circle, and near Abisko Scientific Research Station.
In this film, the narrator insists on the beauty of this land, trying to verbally describe the fantastic natural scenes that he sees and at the same time, he keeps apologising for not having the camera with him. He is almost ashamed of his inability to capture and share this beauty with his audience.
The majority of this attempt includes a physical distortion of negatives. Looking at these footsteps suggests chaos and mess. but it challenges the establishment of authorship in films by opposing the eye-catching visuals and supposedly truth-seeking voiceovers. in this film, I tried to abandon the formal artistic conventions regarding film and media, and disassociate myself from traditional films that try to capture the beauty of nature with razor-sharp tele-photo lenses. In order to make the work, I walked on and then scanned more than five hundred frames of 35 and 61 mm negatives, creating a repetitive method. In a way, it is a collage but unlike the work of pop art collage artists who distance themselves from emotion through mechanical techniques, this one tries to trigger emotions.
Production year: 2022
Roles: Director, Sound Designer
Runtime: 00:06:00
16:9, Colour, Stereo
Roles: Director, Sound Designer
Runtime: 00:06:00
16:9, Colour, Stereo
