Ubi SuntA thematic line running through many of the films in this year’s International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is the inherent materiality of cinema: the objects and bodies immortalized by the act of filmmaking, a desperate yet hubristic gesture which is, as Tarkovsky put it, a “harrowing preparation for death.” The ephemeral is celebrated in film—gestures, moments, glances, events—but to film life is to film death too. And this act of immortalization, the immortalizing of the image through filming (temporarily at least, before the bits and bytes dissipate before the cellulose faces, before the hard drives fail and the DCPs become unreadable) preserves the material world like naturalist specimens in tinted formaldehyde.Bodies are filmed; objects, animals, organs, light and texture. Yet no matter how much of the inner world is stripped away, this cinema of matter only urges the creation of spiritual link to the eternal...
- 6/27/2017
- MUBI
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