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Spatium

Synopsis

INITION and Roland Lane take you on a journey inspired by a famous hat by legendary designer Philip Treacy. In VR, structure and form are explored on a scale that escapes the bounds of the physical, creating a fantasy of light, sound and shadow.

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Year: 2017
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins
Format: Virtual Reality (VR)
Director: Alex Lambert, Roland Lane
Producer: Chris McKeeman
Executive Producer: Olivia Lory Kay, Alex Lambert, Roland Lane, Adrian Leu
Screenwriter: Alex Lambert, Roland Lane
Production Designer: Lucio Cavallari, Matthew Lambert, Andrew Mason
Sound: Mixed Immersion
Music: Rhythm Section International, Hidden Spheres
Technical Artist: Sam Thomson

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

INITION

Olivia Lory Kay

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A poetic memoir and political report, shot in Berlin and Leipzig, and in landscapes around the British Isles. The film’s narrative builds out from the events of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin in 1933 in which the pioneering German-Jewish sound recordist, Ludwig Koch, on whom the film ultimately centres, plays a minor role, placing him and his family in danger. The film is structured in two parts, juxtaposing Koch’s persecution in Nazi Germany with his experiences as a refugee recording bird song and other sounds in Britain. <br /> The film’s images of contemporary urban and rural terrains, and of objects and documents, create a collision between past and present. Shifts in time are further emphasised through the use of Koch’s original sound recordings from Germany and Britain which feature throughout the film.

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