Scene from the film Realtime
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Realtime

Direction
Year 
2002
Country
  • Austria
Duration
4min 

All that film is can be reduced to two elements: light and (proportionately structured) movement. And there are many possible answers to the question of what light and proportionate movement are. In REALTIME, Siegfried Fruhauf has decided on the most simple one, summing it up in the most symbolically unequivocal and, literally, most illuminating way: the sun. The light of the sun is the only type of lighting used to illuminate the movie screen in REALTIME. And the sunrise, filmed in realtime, is the only discernible motion – which makes us realize that all motion, in film and in the cosmos, is temporal. Everything else about film is negotiable, such as the fuzzy area between (justified) expectation and (actual) fulfillment, which is known as suspense. After the moving electric arc on the screen has been revealed to be a heavenly body, we have every reason to believe that it will continue its forward motion in an absolutely constant orbit. At the same time, we eagerly ask at which point (and/or through which points) the filmmaker will remove his gaze from it. Or the soundtrack, which also represents an arbitrary matter, and which is called music in the most arbitrary of cases. The irreversible movement of Fruhauf´s protagonist is accompanied by the groove of a playfully altered pop song – the absolute meter is subordinated to a moment of subjective duration. REALTIME returns the possibilities available to film to their absolute zero – and provides a clever hint at what can be reimagined proceeding from this point (and on to eternity). (Robert Buchschwenter)

Details

  • Original title
    Realtime
  • Direction
  • Sound
    Jürgen Gruber, Christoph Ruschak
  • Duration
    4 min (1-15 min.)
  • Year
    2002
  • Country
    • Austria
  • Festivals
    • 2002 Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films
    • 2002 Madrid - Semana de Cine Experimental
    • 2002 Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
    • 2003 Brisbane - Int. Film Festival
    • 2003 Chicago Underground Film Festival
    • 2003 Istanbul - Int. Short Film Festival
    • 2003 Melbourne - Int. Film Festival
    • 2003 Osnabrück - European Media Art Festival
    • 2003 Wiesbaden - exground on screen

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