PARALLAX

Inger Lise Hansen | Austria / Norway 2009 | 5 min.

Material: 35mm
Format: 35mm
Original language: no dialogues

Camera: Inger Lise Hansen
Editing: Inger Lise Hansen

Production: OK Center for Contemporary Art Linz
Print/Sales: Sixpackfilm

Elfi-von-Dassanowsky-Award, Vienna Independent Shorts Fest 2010

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The reversal of established perspectives is a specialty of Norwegian artist Inger Lise Hansen. In PARALLAX she tips the camera, in the same way as her 2006 beach film PROXIMITY and recently TRAVELLING FIELDS, by 180 degrees, sending it on a journey through a spooky landscape where Heaven and Earth seemed to have switched places.
A series of tracking shots across the broad, empty flat roof of a department store in Linz. This movement is an illusion, just like the elimination of gravity: All eight tracking shots, which constitute the visual portion of this work, were filmed as single images, using the technique of stop motion as in animation films.

PARALLAX simulates a denatured world in which even the complex soundtrack soon leaves its distant confusion of voices behind to enter soundscapes that no one can access. – Stefan Grissemann

Inger Lise Hansen, born 1963 in Trondheim. She was educated at North East London Polytechnic, St. Martin's College of Art, London and received a Masters of Fine Art Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her experimental, prize-winning animations have been shown at international film festivals, museums, galleries.

Films (Selection): 2009 Travelling Fields, Parallax | 2007 Casting the Shadows | 2006 Proximity | 2004 Here After | 2001 Triptych | 1993 Talking to a Stone | 1991 Tilt

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