1/8
Comparing the number of photoreceptor cells in eyes of human and hawk, hawk has about 8 times more photoreceptor cells than human. The title of the film is about human eyes. Figure of flying bird in sky as a small black dot is the intimation of things that human can not see. Human has been following the black dot by the desire to fly. On the other hand, bird has been distorted by human as an image or a sign.
Rei Hayama
Director
Also Directed by Rei Hayama
Footsteps of horses and sheep. I run to the forest in a hurry. But I never reach to the forest of my destination. I'm remain in the original place, the place before the tale. After the destination (forest) disappears gradually, aimless footsteps are left on the stage. "Being on the way to somewhere" becomes a story of film in itself. The white light placed in the center of picture is continuously changing its role and prolongs the tail of the tale.
The story flowing under this film has certain parallels to the theory of bird's hibernation and transformation advocated by Aristotle which is already dated today. In the land, ash snow is falling. The land's flag is fluttering in the blowing wind. And the quail slowly transforms into some other species. When listening to the voice of soil, there is no border in the land.
While keep continuing the silent conversation with Goethe's "Theory of Colours", I went toward the nature of Slovakia, a landlocked country of east europe. Various living things, natural caves which hides the overwhelming space in its inside, and the sun. I turned the camera towards (so-called) the insignificant incident, and I paid close attention to those things that related to each other not by language but by the colours that human can not see.
Film THE FOCUS is constructed from rephotographed images collected from old pictorial books of volcano, nomad's culture, war , mountains, some texts and simple color screens that are inserted between images. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Earth’s Holocaust” is there as a background of this film.
A single take of a model of a Japanese home burning down, captured on hand-cranked 16mm film that was processed in coffee instead of traditional chemicals.
Video, Color
2021/video/16:9/sound/12 min
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?
16min, 2011, shooting format: 16mm film, screening format: HD, col
Song written and produced by Sokif Vocals by Calu (Matryoshka)
