Parallax Dash
Identifier
D.2012-08-0045
Date Of Production
2018
Abstract
A work created for the 2018 International Media Mixer by filmmaker Domietta Torlasco (United States) and composer Stefano Urkuma De Santis (Italy).
The International Media Mixer was produced by Chicago Film Archives in collaboration with Lab 80 Film - Cinescatti Archive with support from the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. In this cross-cultural artistic exchange, Italian artists were commissioned to make a new film using material from CFA’s collections and Chicago-based artists were comissioned to do the same using footage from a regional Italian archive, Lab 80 film – Cinescatti. Their creations premiered in Italy at the Bergamo Film Meeting and in the United States at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago as part of the 2018 Millennium Park Summer Film Series produced by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
The International Media Mixer was produced by Chicago Film Archives in collaboration with Lab 80 Film - Cinescatti Archive with support from the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. In this cross-cultural artistic exchange, Italian artists were commissioned to make a new film using material from CFA’s collections and Chicago-based artists were comissioned to do the same using footage from a regional Italian archive, Lab 80 film – Cinescatti. Their creations premiered in Italy at the Bergamo Film Meeting and in the United States at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago as part of the 2018 Millennium Park Summer Film Series produced by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Description
Description provided by the artists:
Grass, stones, water, steel: the body recalls the time of things in this short film on the mountains and the almost obsessive walking of those who live there. Geological and political memory, without centre and without end, which returns in the family films assembled here following a logic of displacements, dispersions, discordances between sound and image. The screen is divided in two, as in the old stereoscopic devices, but the images do not overlap to create a single vision. Instead, they meet in the distance that separates them, as do the people portrayed on them: a group of women in an occupied factory, a woman in an elegant dress looking at herself in a mirror, a baby kicking, little girls posing for their first communion. The rhythm is the discontinuous one of a memory that brings reality and imagination together.
Grass, stones, water, steel: the body recalls the time of things in this short film on the mountains and the almost obsessive walking of those who live there. Geological and political memory, without centre and without end, which returns in the family films assembled here following a logic of displacements, dispersions, discordances between sound and image. The screen is divided in two, as in the old stereoscopic devices, but the images do not overlap to create a single vision. Instead, they meet in the distance that separates them, as do the people portrayed on them: a group of women in an occupied factory, a woman in an elegant dress looking at herself in a mirror, a baby kicking, little girls posing for their first communion. The rhythm is the discontinuous one of a memory that brings reality and imagination together.
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Dimensions
1920 px
x 1080 px
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