Language is everything, except God I wanted to make something that had a consistency metaphysical, mysterious, and that is why the characters of quartet of vertical motion not speak a word. In this sense, the aesthetic influence was stronger than that of another short film, film (1964) by Samuel Beckett. The primitive idea was inspired by four phrases aphorism from 1995 caught my attention. The challenge is to translate them into four short synthetic films, transfer as a concept from the written word to the moving image, without the redundancy of any dialogue. The sentences in question come Merz artist: disappears if the shape of its root is eternal / writer Guénon: the dissolution of the body is the determination of the spirit / astronaut Gagarin seen from space the earth is blue / Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the philosopher: depth should be hidden. Where? On the surface . The realization of this experimental work is four years (1995-1998), is slightly reworked 10 years later, without even removing the analogical character of his time, that time when we experimented with less security and controls on the image. I was born professionally in the early 90s and I feel I belong to that generation of filmmakers who made his debut with schemes such as the Super VHS, Hi8 to the U-matic and that for many years considered the video as "a gym for a possible future profession. " This support was seen as a last resort because of technological and economic reality in every filmmaker dreamed of motion picture film more than anything else in the world, considered more "worthy" in the representation of any visual impact. At that time nobody could imagine the unexpected revolution in digital technology, a little later it would all be called into question, the difference between video and 35 mm would become increasingly vague and imperceptible. The fact is that my generation started with the video and the video will continue to work with. The quartet of vertical motion was born just before this great revolution. The quartet of vertical motion was born at the end of an era, analog, when the assembly was carried out in a linear namely sequential, when there was talk of "images of the first, second, third generation," when everything drastically influenced (?) stylistic choices and sent to a slower flow of images. The quartet of vertical motion is my "precious debut, was the only way in which I wanted to start making movies.
(Antonio Meucci, 2008)
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