28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Hypnodrome
Hypnodrome
Hypnodrome

Hypnodrome

director: Richard Wilhelmer
original title: Hypnodrom
country: Austria
year: 2017
running time: 5 min.

synopsis

The simple combination of movements by the camera and the observer creates a hypnotic ride in which, despite a voiceover emphasizing calm and relaxation, rotating objects and lights create an unsettling physical experience and dig the viewer´s imagination deep into grogginess of unsettled look.

“Hypnodrome is motion-induced delirium. A cinematographic look through the ‘egocentric camera’ and an homage to cinema as a site of contemplation and trance.” R. Wilhelmer

biography

Visual artist Richard Wilhelmer (1983) was born in Vienna and studie in Berlin and London and at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He has created public interactive installations, a feature- ength fiction film, a book of stories, and intermedia experiments in which digital technology plays an important role. Wilhelmer explores interpersonal relationships and questions of adolescence and adulthood, frequently with the use of sci-fi elements.

more about film

director: Richard Wilhelmer
producer: Richard Wilhelmer
photography: Serafin Spitzer
sound: Christian Obermaier
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms