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ventilator

Name: ventilator
Director: fiona robertson
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2016
Duration: 6mins 35secs

Fiona Robertson

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

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Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

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