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Pollen
Pollen, 2008
Director & Producer: Vishal Shah
Music: Adam Stansbie
Duration: 4’36”
Distribution Format: DVD PAL
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Pollen: a visual music experience structured around a series of thematic
contrasts; light and dark, organic and synthetic, certainty and ambiguity,
existence and emptiness. Perhaps the most important of these is an exploration
of movement and stasis, since this central contrast is used to divide the film
into three episodic moments; Pollen opens with the gradual unfolding of an
image, thus enabling the viewer to explore its form and detail. However,
this almost static moment is soon replaced by vigorous pulses of energy and
motion that drive the film onwards. The sound-world enhances these contrasts;
references to the elements - wind, water and metallic objects - tally with the title
of the film and are in discourse with the images that Pollen presents.
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