Year: 2016 Length: 00:22:00 Categories: Film / TV / Video, Video Art, video work, experimental film, experimental film
Project type: Diplom
As a result of an erroneously installed wind turbine, the flicker effect, which brings to mind structuralist experimental cinema, appears in documentary images showing the landscape and architecture of a Massachusetts coast town. ""Ocean Hill Drive"" examines a rare phenomenon, the so-called ‚shadowflicker’, that occurs in a suburban area on the outskirts of Boston. As a result of an erroneously installed wind turbine, the flicker effect, which brings to mind structuralist experimental cinema, appears instead in documentary images showing the landscape and architecture of a Massachusetts coast town. The film focuses on the visual quality of the pulsating shadows that intrude the suburban domestic sphere and disrupt the social and psychological equilibrium of the community. Documentary images are complemented with a female voiceover, which is based on multiple interviews that were transcripted and assembled into a single narration. The film slowly uncovers fragmentary memories from the time when the flicker began. An atmosphere of suspense and intangible fear is generated throughout the film, while the actual source of the flickering lights remains unknown
Collaboration:
Idee und Realisation: Miriam Gossing und Lina Sieckmann Kamera: Christian Kochmann Ton und Sounddesign: Tim Gorinski Produktion: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Supervision:
Prof. Matthias Müller, Prof. Beate Gütschow, Prof. Sophie Maintigneux, Prof. Johannes Wohnseifer, Prof. Phil Collins
Authors:
Miriam Gossing
Lina Sieckmann
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
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