To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
Rating: 8.1 · 1991 · USA · 52 мин
Description
To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film development. In a series of tableaux, people perform everyday tasks — sleeping, dining, reading, card-playing — as the camera arcs past and over them (the replete set of positions recalls La région centrale’s movements). Brown abraded the film stock, creating a continuous dynamic surface-effect tension with the comparatively static views and cueing the soundtrack, the crackle of fire. The physics and chemistry of combustion were the scientific focus of Lavoisier, the 18th-century savant.
Information
- Year
- 1991
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 52 мин
- TMDB
- 8.1
- IMDb
- 8.1