The ritual of colour

The materiality of reversal-film material is being portrayed. This analogue technology, with its exposed chemical skeleton is clashing in an anachronistic filmic gag with contemporary digital animation. Colour is presented not as a natural, but a highly constructed medium in the expierence of film.
El Ritual del Color is a short experimental-essay which is questioning canonized and hegemonic film-rituals used to build and test cinematic-images. (L.O.C.)



In Maria Luz Olivares Capelle´s experimental essay, the "waste material" arising during camera tests develops into an independent artwork: uncontrolled patches of color overgrowing the black-and-white film, chemically disfigured positive and negative images, as well as benign digital animations unveil a psychedelic color intoxication with virulent pull. (Diagonale Catalogue 2016)

El Ritual del Color

Trailer
Orig. Title
El Ritual del Color
Year
2015
Country
Duration
2 min 30 sec
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
Credits
Director
Luz Olivares Capelle
Concept & Realization
Luz Olivares Capelle
Cinematography
Ralph Voltron, Almut Schilling, Luz Olivares Capelle, Serafin Spitzer
Animation
Luz Olivares Capelle
Production
Luz Olivares Capelle
Actor/Actress
Almut Schilling, Luz Olivares Capelle
Available Formats
DCP 2K flat (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
silent
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
colour
Digital File (prores, h264)
Festivals (Selection)
2015
Viennale - Vienna Int. Film Festival
2016
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films
Seoul - EXis (Experimental Film- & Videofestival)
Lviv - Wiz-Art International Short Film Festival
Wien - VIS Vienna Shorts
2017
Bratislava - Febiofest