Movie Details
Original Language:English
Monroc
29 min
Plot
Lost Destinations is the name of a Web site dedicated to obscure locations in the USA Abandoned unusual wild and weird road trip photography and beyond is presented for the viewers pleasure including illustrations of an abandoned concrete and buildingmaterial factory in Idaho Falls the Monroc Facility which is the starting point for Michaela Grills video of the same name A still image of the picturesque industrial ruin appears repeatedly throughout the halfhour work like a refrain its stanzas comprising three independent abstract studies The soundtrack by Martin Siewert underlines the suites synesthetic character such as by casting acoustic shadows in places where the video image builds on musical parameters such as rhythm timbre and tonality When the color and brightness of individual images are modulated in the reprise the three episodes independently sample a range of more abstract visual characteristics
