Serene Velocity (1970)
- Directed by
- Ernie Gehr
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 23 min
- Rating
- 4.5 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film shows a hallway from a fixed camera position while the lens focus changes. This creates a shifting visual rhythm and a strange sense of space.
hypnoticstillrhythmicmeditativeabstractminimalistobservationaldisorienting
What happens
Serene Velocity is a 1970 American experimental short film directed by Ernie Gehr. Gehr filmed it in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University academic building, using a static camera position and changing only the focal length of the camera. It is recognized as a key work of structural filmmaking and has been inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Straight and Narrow (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.