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ventilator

Synopsis

Ventilator is set in two locations in Scotland; a derelict ventilation system on a rooftop in the city of Glasgow and a beach on the Ayrshire coast. This short experimental video comprises of a mixture of animation and filmed work, with the two protagonists- a woman and a masked, distorted man, encountering and being encountered by a variety of objects, mundane and foreign, many with motive-force of their own. The film is edited to be fragmentary and non-linear, with scenes dissolving and elements collapsing and bleeding into one another. Land art, totemic heads, and the repeated emergence and disintegration of masks throughout the piece represents not a cryptography for the audience to decipher, but an invitation to engage within the ‘logic of sensation’.
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Year
2016
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
6mins 35secs
Format
digital h264
Director
fiona robertson
Producer
fiona robertson
Co-Producer
fiona robertson
Executive Producer
fiona robertson
Editor
fiona robertson
Screenwriter
fiona robertson
Director of Photography
fiona robertson
Production Designer
fiona robertson
Sound
fiona robertson
Composer
fiona robertson
Principal cast
katrine turner, niall turer, aidan turner

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

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Sales Company

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