Short film

Earth Pulse

1975 · 5 min

A hypnotic, unsettling experimental loop of body and noise that feels like a ritual glimpsed through broken video.

Directed by: Gary Hill
Genres: Animation

Overview: A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a reel-to-reel video player—a frozen line of noise (an asynchronous frame) cuts through the image reinforcing the sense of physicality. The sounding form is eventually set in an electronically generated landscape with temple-like forms of undulating feedback. Further processing of the voice and additional rhythmic electronic sounds are suggestive of ritual.

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Directed by: Gary Hill
Genres: Animation

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
madness
art
isolation
violence
Places: None
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: single location
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	1
Realism	2
Romance	0
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	4

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