Everything Turns…
Experimental Short | Colour | Super 8 | 2017
Images by Aaron Zeghers
Sound by Andy Rudolph
> 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL *
> 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
> 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Fest | Vancouver, CA *
> 2017 Festival du nouvea cinéma | Montreal, CA
> 2017 $100 Film Festival | Calgary, CA
-Winner of “Best Super 8 Film” Award
> 2017 WNDX Festival of Moving Image | Winnipeg, MB *
> 2017 Athens Film & Video Festival | Athens, USA
> 2017 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *
> 2017 Curtocircuíto International Film Festival | Santiago de Compostela, ES
> 2017 Festival of Cinematic, Audio & Visual Experimentation | Minneapolis *
> 2017 Festival Images Contre Nature | Marseille, FR
> 2017 Microscope Gallery screening | Brooklyn, NY *
> 2017 Festival IVAHM | Madrid, ES
> 2017 Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages | Bruxelles, BE
> 2017 Moviate Film Festival | Harrisburg, PA
> 2017 Dawson City Short Film Fest | Dawson City, CA
> 2017 Best of the $100 Film Festival at Cineworks | Vancouver, CA
> 2017 Short Circuit | Brighton, UK
> 2017 Video! Video! Zine | Chicago, IL
*performed live
A shorthand study of the mythology of numbers, from 1 to 12. Scientific tradition is adopted then eschewed for rumours, legends and defunct theories from across the ages. The camera pens a year-long record of space, movement and the passing of time in historic locations around the world. This almanac of anthropomorphic numerology is recorded in-camera onto Super 8, using open exposure photography, light painting, light table animation, paper animation, hand drawn animation and more. Just like Richter nearly 100 years ago, we will discover that everything turns, everything revolves and everything feels the deep score of time.
The audio for 'Everything Turns...' was generated by modelling three-dimensional objects in a virtual space and rotating each object about its centre of mass. As they rotate, the coordinates of each vertex are used as control parameters for a group of sine waves, each associated with a different harmonic partial of 24Hz. Pitch, amplitude and pan are all controlled in this manner. Additionally, a collection of field recordings are sampled and controlled by the same means. The recordings are grouped in association with the platonic solids, each corresponding to one of the four elements which constitute the physical universe, as described in Plato's Timaeus. Metrically, each of the twelve minutes is punctuated by a steadily growing group of chimes. Meanwhile, a distant collection of three metronomes tick away the moments at 60, 24 and 2 beats per minute.
