Short film
Volcano
2002 · 30 min
A slow, silent meditation on looking itself, where raw volcanic imagery becomes an abstract puzzle about perception and meaning.
- Directed by
- Peter Gidal
- Overview
- Volcano, half hour, silent, shot on 16mm on a volcano in Hawaii, the film attempts to deal with those questions of representation that persist as problematic, for me, for the basic questions of aesthetics, what it is to view, how to view the unknown as to view the known is not possibly a viewing. The question of recognition, the impossibility of recognition or, better said, the impossibility o f a viewer viewing at all if it is predicated up on recognition... at that moment, you the viewer I the viewer am no longer part of a process, a material however metaphysical or not process of making meaning through the conflicts of perception of something...
- How it feels
- Eerie, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Art, nature, identity, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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