Scene from the film Exposed
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Exposed

Direction
Year 
2001
Country
  • Austria
Duration
9min 

Translated literally "exposed" means "to make something visible" or "uncovered". In photography it means to subject photographic film to light. Exposed uses short scene from a feature film – a man observes a dancing woman through a keyhole – is used as the raw material. Solely fragments of this tableau are visible to the viewer, and Fruhauf "re-exposes" the scene by passing the perforations of a strip of film in front of the projector so that they resemble a moving sieve.
While the moving stencil allows us to see no more than portions of the scene, the narration's "peeping tom" motif is repeated in our own perception. Sight can no longer be taken for granted and therefore increases in fascination.
Fruhauf also breaks up the intended movement of the found footage on the temporal level. The apparent irregularity of the fields of light scanning over the strip of film is juxtaposed with a metronomically precise rhythm which segments the scene. Successive shots often vary to no more than a minimal degree. Similar to a record album with a crack, the progression shifts in minute but regular ways.
The new film movement is therefore a palimpsest consisting of several layers: A particular scene is segmented and reassembled in a new way, and the space inside the frame is broken down into a moving prism.
Together with the soundtrack (rising and falling white noise, drips and whispers), Fruhauf's study on seeing and being seen, light and movement – in other words, cinema – has a nearly hypnotic effect. (Maya McKechneay)

Details

  • Original title
    Exposed
  • Direction
  • Duration
    9 min (1-15 min.)
  • Year
    2001
  • Country
    • Austria
  • Festivals
    • Austin - Cinetexas - Int. short film&video&new media festival
    • Brest - Festival du Film Court
    • Denver - Int. Film Festival
    • Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films
    • Hamburg - Int. Kurzfilm-Festival & No Budget
    • London Film Festival
    • Luzern - VIPER - Int. Film und Video Festival
    • Melbourne - Int. Film Festival
    • Montrèal - Festival International du Nouveau Film et de la Video
    • New York - Expo of Short Film & Video
    • Olympia - Film Festival
    • Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
    • Vila do Conde - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens
    • Angers - Premiers Plans
    • Ann Arbor - Film Festival
    • Austin - Cinetexas - Int. short film&video&new media festival
    • Chicago Underground Film Festival
    • Cork - Int. Film Festival
    • Humboldt - Int. Film Festival
    • Osnabrück - European Media Art Festival
    • Rotterdam - Int. Filmfestival
    • Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Media Art Festival
    • Tampere - Film Festival
    • Toronto - IMAGES - Independent Film & Video Festival
    • Toronto - Worldwide Short Film Festival
    • Utrecht - Impakt Festival
    • Windsor - Media City
    • Zürich - VIDEOEXperimental; Video & Film Festival
    • Oberhausen - Int. Kurzfilmtage
    • Tokyo - Image Forum Festival

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