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

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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