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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

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A Very Long Gif

Eduardo WILLIAMS

  • Spain, Norway, Greece
  • 2022
  • 75min
  • 15 +
  • DCP
  • color

Asian premiere

Synopsis

A Very Long Gif is an observational journey through the landscape of the digestive system, combined with a detailed zoom into cities and people moving in the limits of our vision. These disparate image spaces sustain each other with the tension of celestial bodies. The sound of overlapping movements through different human agglomerations offers a third level of observation. Scales are flipped and imperceptible movements are unveiled in the longest GIF you¡¯ve ever seen. 

Review

 A Very Long Gif exhibits bizarre images captured by a capsule endoscope camera as it travels through the internal organs. In the film, 8 hours of videos at two to three frames per second are compressed into a 75-minute-long sequence. The sound and image projected circularly convey the feeling of alien, dark, and intimidating places. To add footnotes to the yellow circular frames, director Eduardo Willams additionally filmed videos with a telephoto lens at his apartment house in Athens. Williams shot a view of the Acropolis, kissing couples, and a party on a hill from a panoramic surveillance point of view in small circular frames. The frames slowly traverse endoscope images and create an image of two moons orbiting around the planets. The small and big circles travel from side to side slowly and rhythmically. The purpose of the film is not to disgust the audience with images of internal organs. Instead, the images catch audiences¡¯ eyes and lenses are full of bubbles reflecting camera light to create golden light. Some of them even reach the level of abstracting paintings. The film vividly shows the experimental spirit of Williams, who has been exploring the invasive relationship between technologies and the human body in modern society.          

Director

  • Eduardo WILLIAMS

    Eduardo Williams is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for shared relations and spontaneous adventures within physical and virtual networks. His first feature, The Human Surge, won the Pardo d¡¯oro at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival.

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