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

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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