toward a fundamental theory of physics

Name: toward a fundamental theory of physics
Director: Victor Van Rossem
Released: 2025
Duration: 13 min

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Victor Van Rossem / 2025 / 13 mins / Belgium / No Dialogue / Experimental / Australian Premiere

Viewer Advice: Contains stroboscopic imagery

A uniquely tactile exploration of time and light, captured on 16mm film with hundreds of lenses.

Using a handcrafted time slice camera equipped with 293 lenses, Belgian artist Victor Van Rossem resurrects a vintage photographic technique to create an incredibly immersive depiction of light on film, striking and almost spectral in its strange optical pull. In the film’s otherworldly space – its 3D tangle of colour and movement – light itself appears to become a physical object.

Metro sessions

Sat 15 Aug 1:00pm ACMI 2

Past Session

Cinema of Spectacle: Experimental Visions (73 m)

Au hasard (10 m)

Infernal Combustion (3 m)

FELT (16 m)

toward a fundamental theory of physics (13 m)

A to A (6 m)

Embargo (10 m)

Twelve Tales Told (4 m)

Revolving Rounds (11 m)

Cinema of Spectacle: Experimental Visions (73 m)

Au hasard (10 m)

Infernal Combustion (3 m)

FELT (16 m)

toward a fundamental theory of physics (13 m)

A to A (6 m)

Embargo (10 m)

Twelve Tales Told (4 m)

Revolving Rounds (11 m)

Past Session

ACMI 2

Past Session

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