A Proposal to project in Scope

Viktoria Schmid's A Proposal to project in Scope (2020) begins with a shot of shallow rolling waves. Images are seen of a deserted beach, overgrown dunes and the brush of a pine forest, accompanied by sounds of the ocean quietly lapping, rustling winds, and birds twittering.
Shot in 35mm CinemaScope, the opening of this short suggests a documentary approach characteristic of avant-garde films made in the 1960s and 1970s. However, following upon Schmid's A Proposal to project in 4:3 (2017), A Proposal to project in Scope opens a perspective that differs from historical works dedicated to exploring the relationship between the...

Orig. Title
A Proposal to project in Scope
Year
2020
Countries
Austria, Lithuania
Duration
8 min
Director
Viktoria Schmid
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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