Tx-transform (1998)
- Original title
- tx-transform
- Directed by
- Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
- Country
- Austria
- Runtime
- 5 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 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
This short film demonstrates a technique that swaps time and space in video. It shows scenes with a person walking through a city but the normal flow of images is reconfigured.
experimentaldisorientingabstractfreneticcerebralnonlinearbrisk
What happens
tx-transform is a film technique and software developed by Austrian filmmaker and media artist Martin Reinhart. It represents a specific implementation of slit-scan photography, in which one of the spatial axes (x or y) of an image is interchanged with the time axis (t). Normally, each frame of film depicts the entire spatial scene at one instant in time. In a tx-transformed film, each frame instead contains the entire duration of a shot but only a narrow section of space – for example, when cut along the horizontal axis, the left side of the image represents the “before” and the right side the “after.” The term tx-transform also refers to a short film (Austria, 1998, 35 mm, Cinemascope, 5 min) that Reinhart created together with Virgil Widrich, in which the technique was first used and presented at festivals. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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