https://www.interfilm.de/en/internationales-kurzfilmfestival-berlin-2019/sound-vision/
EV 02 Sound & Vision
Unfold
John Graham, Experimental Film, 2019, 06:09 min, Production countries: Canada, Hungary, Denmark,
Iridescent colour changes bring the past of the silent film era to life, while Dadaist dances merge in their own mirror image into samples and sounds from "Klangschneider".
Captivating the senses with psychedelic visuals and pulsating synths, Unfold is a phantasmagoric delight. Here, two dancers’ movements are mirrored into a symmetrical entanglement of limbs—transforming into a Rorschach test in perpetual reconfiguration. The film’s visuals pay homage to the early cinema of the 1920s, and the seductive electronic score recalls the sci-fi films of the 1960s. Yet, Unfold does not merely recreate past media. Rather, the film is a pastiche that recontextualizes those influences to create something distinctly contemporary, yet timeless. The resulting psylocybic sensory overload encapsulates both the beauty and the horror of finding connection with another—in a colourful dance that continually evolves, transforms, and unfolds into itself.
Warren Chan, Lights Dance Festival (Toronto, Canada)
“I felt that this film was a very interesting sequence of metamorphic fluidity that achieves a progressing unifying of forms throughout but maintaining the astral or spirit-like lens in the background. It is certainly a feast for the eyes and hypnotic throughout. A piece that requires several viewings to gain appreciation and understanding of what the attributing costumes and props signify. Thank you, John.”
Daniel Gralian (Saskatoon, Canada)