Written by Marcos Ortega
January 02, 2008
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Bezucelná procházka (Aimless Walk) is Hammid's first film, which inaugurated the movement of avant-garde film in Czecholovakia.
Alexander Hammid - Bezucelná procházka (1930)
Written by Marcos Ortega
January 02, 2008
Bezucelná procházka (Aimless Walk) is Hammid's first film, which inaugurated the movement of avant-garde film in Czecholovakia.
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"Anthem is a post-industrial lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los Angeles. Viola relates this structure to the form and function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants (using a harmonic scale in a resonant hall) and Tantric Buddhist chants (ritual exorcism and conversation with demons)."
Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in
perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and
macrocosm, nature and consciousness.
Viola has referred to Sweet Light and other tapes from this period as "songs"-personal lyrical statements.
"All movement and change in an otherwise still scene is confined to the
reflections on the surface of a pool in the woods. Suspended in time, a
man hovers in a frozen, midair leap over the water, as subtle
techniques of still-framing and multiple keying join disparate layers
of time into a single coherent image. Viola writes that 'the piece
concerns the emergence of the individual into the natural world -- a
kind of baptism.'"
