THE SUN EXPERIMENT (ETHER ECHOES)
Realizador Elise Florenty Marcel Türkowsky
Países France, Germany, Ukraine
Duração 43 min
Sinopse
Somewhere near the Black Sea, in a post-Soviet mining town. A very young woman prepares to undergo an electro-telepathic solar experiment via an ’excitator’, in a do-it-yourself version of Cold War parapsychic experiments. The sun’s radiation is transformed into electrical energy stimulating the layers of her consciousness and causing an explosion of memories multiplying it into diverse characters, activities and timeframes. Collective visions nested one inside the other.” As in their previous films, their words set the tone, the ambition is elevated. The aim is a meditation on History, but with small-scale means, dedicated to the most modest materiality. Dust, rug, salad bowl, hourglass, glass vial, dance steps, caps, etc., chime out a tangible world, but one grasped as if on the verge of disappearing. The camera stays close to what it shoots, making felt the thickness of elements as if they were as labile as the electric current or the stuff of dreams, for example. Even the commentaries, those ghostly voices off, are swept up in a dreamlike haze that refuses the limits of real space. This sun experiment, which is never blinding, leads us to a celebration of the languor of abandonment rather than of conquest (the famous Victory over the Sun). (Jean-Pierre Rehm)
Somewhere near the Black Sea, in a post-Soviet mining town. A very young woman prepares to undergo an electro-telepathic solar experiment via an ’excitator’, in a do-it-yourself version of Cold War parapsychic experiments. The sun’s radiation is transformed into electrical energy stimulating the layers of her consciousness and causing an explosion of memories multiplying it into diverse characters, activities and timeframes. Collective visions nested one inside the other.” As in their previous films, their words set the tone, the ambition is elevated. The aim is a meditation on History, but with small-scale means, dedicated to the most modest materiality. Dust, rug, salad bowl, hourglass, glass vial, dance steps, caps, etc., chime out a tangible world, but one grasped as if on the verge of disappearing. The camera stays close to what it shoots, making felt the thickness of elements as if they were as labile as the electric current or the stuff of dreams, for example. Even the commentaries, those ghostly voices off, are swept up in a dreamlike haze that refuses the limits of real space. This sun experiment, which is never blinding, leads us to a celebration of the languor of abandonment rather than of conquest (the famous Victory over the Sun). (Jean-Pierre Rehm)