GRID, 2021

Short Synopsis:
«That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).

Longer Description:
GRID (2021) amplifies a vertiginous world through a detailed and obsessive camera movement pushing against a grid/cross shape on a concrete wall, along the submerged corridors of an abandoned building.

The whole film is made from a thorough and exhaustive manipulation of more than 10.000 single-frames taken daily through the course of 4 years, revealing the different natural and atmospheric qualities specific to every season. This persistent repetition in exploring different camera movements along the building for such a long period of time reveals subtle changes in the intensity of the sunlight, interplays of shadows caused by the moving clouds, seasonal transformations of humidity and dirt in the space and infiltrations of water, therefore multiplying the ways the building can be explored and seen.

The singularity and diversity present in each variation of light, shadow, water and piece of dirt through each hour, day, week, month, season and year unveil — not only one — but an infinite amount of buildings, consequently and exhaustively enhancing the possibilities to invest on the experimentation of the camera movement, the speed of the still-frames, and the rhythm of the montage. A state of entropy is triggered — a ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).

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