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Landsbykirker (1999)

Landsbykirker poster
Directed by
Jesper Fabricius
Genre
experimental film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
3 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short experimental film uses grainy black-and-white images and distorted sound to depict village churches moving and dancing as if in religious ecstasy. It is a meditation on the texture and feel of old celluloid film compared to modern digital video.

poeticexperimentaltextureddreamlikeunsettlinghypnoticrhythmicdarkly meditative

What happens

Landsbykirker er en eksperimentalfilm instrueret af Jesper Fabricius efter Jesper Rasmussens manuskript. Forvrængede landsbykirker i religiøs ekstase. Poetisk kortfilm, der med usædvanlig stoflighed minder os om hvilke kvaliteter, der går tabt, når celluloid erstattes af digitale videobånd. Filmenes tekstur og urolige bevægelser er som penselstrøg i et maleri. I »Arkitektur« skabes med kornede sorthvide billeder et foruroligende og drømmeagtigt byunivers. I »Landsbykirker« er de gamle bygninger ved hjælp af en kopimaskine og lyden fra et usikkert orgel bragt til at danse omkring i billedfeltet. Jesper Fabricius er en af sin generations mest underfundige og kompromisløse filmkunstnere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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