Vertigo Rush
Johann Lurf AT, 2007, 19', 35 mm
In the interplay of nature and (optical) machine, the hidden becomes visible. Vertigo Rush is a technically extravagant experiment consisting of a series of dolly zooms: a succession of camera movements captured in individual images of forward and backward motion, while simultaneously zooming in the opposite direction. More so than recalling Hitchcock, who established the technique of the dolly zoom in Vertigo more than half a century ago, Vertigo Rush is reminiscent of the clever perception experiments of New American Cinema of the 1960s, especially Michael Snow’s structuralist space and movement studies, one of which would also provide an apt name: Back and Forth. The apparently simple basic situation develops genuine cinematographic impact: While the pure tone soundtrack constantly increases in frequency - at first subliminally, soon thumping nervously - the space expands and condenses as though digitally animated while the virtually uncontrollable play of daylight leaves behind its (documentary) traces even in this system of strict cinematic regulation. (Stefan Grissemann)
Wed 24/9 Kino SC 20:00
