Camera Test
Viewer Advice: Contains stroboscopic imagery.
Pioneering filmmaker Siegfried A. Fruhauf (Thorax, MIFF 2021; Water and Clearing, MIFF 2019) returns with a cinematic journey in which landscape images are separated by several monochrome frames of green leader.
Simultaneously connective and disorientating in its stroboscope effect, the Austrian master’s new work strings together landscape recordings created in the context of a camera test. The result is a sparse yet slashing work, where the camera’s gaze zooms into the passing landscape – and into the uncanny sublime.