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Cannot be anything against the wind

Flatform

2010 00:06:20 ItalyItalianColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Sequences of landscapes shot in an area of 60 km make up mosaics of places and reference axes constantly changing that do not exist in our surroundings. In this video bodies are not near or far. They are large or small. The horizons change and no space is independent from the viewer. Incorporating only memory, the landscape is seen in a variety of speeds and movements that apply a bodily logic to the vision.

That which flows beyond the walls of our horizon together flow on the same plane. Whilst the plans themselves also flow. Horizons change. Every living being is inside its own bubble which contains everything visible to them and their space maintains the solidity of their structure. With Cannot be anything against the wind the view is an individual projection onto a site, the action is the individual or collective use of an environment, and the landscape is a view without action. The sky in this video is used as a natural "blue screen" and the sequences of each landscape, composed with a multilayers system, create a place that does not exist in reality.

-- Flatform

Note: This title is intended by the artist to be viewed in High Definition. While DVD format is available to enable accessibility, VDB recommends presentation on Blu-ray or HD digital file.

Flatform was founded in 2006 and is based in Milan and Berlin.

Flatform works in video and time based installations including mobile installations. Works by Flatform have been shown in many exhibitions at museums and institutions including, among others, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; MARCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Catanzaro, Italy; Kulturhuset in Stockhom, Sweden; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia; Museu da imagen e do som in Sao Paulo, Brasil; and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain.

Videoworks by Flatform have been featured in several film festivals throughout the world such as Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Canada; LOOP Festival Barcelona, Spain; Melbourne Film Festival, Australia; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Venice International Film Festival, Italy; Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil, and Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen.

Works by Flatform have been awarded at Screen Festival 2008, in Oslo; 25FPS 2009, in Zagreb; Lago Film Festival 2010, in Revine Lago; Festival International du Court-Metrage 2011, in Lille.