Movie Details
Original Language:English
Axis
DirectorJohn Kneller
18 min
Plot
Axis takes as its subject matter the mundane faceless urban landscape with its gleaming towers and factories The workaday humdrum drones to the hive So I take to the streets with my homemade Bolex robot affectionately known as BOLBOT It is a timelapse motion control machine capable of smoothly spinning through XYZ axes continuously or in a stopgo pattern The resulting footage is a transformed view of the city urban scenes are in a continual state of exaggerated movement A main idea of this film is to take mediated views of everyday city scenery and to elevate the city to a frenzied cosmic rendering with orblike symmetries abounding The city and nature are transformed into a seething and pulsing mandala The hope is that the spectator experiences meditative trancelike states
