At One Fell Swoop
Michael Higgins
Synopsis
At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings in which he finds himself trapped in a flickering, shifting world of shadows on an intense cataclastic rock path towards a dead end. Photographed anamorphically on expired 16mm black and white film with a 50-year-old hand-cranked camera and entirely hand-processed, At One Fell Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged amid multiple strata of time and space.
This work is also located in the Experimental Film Society collection, and is featured in the MExIndex External Collections.
Details
Title
At One Fell Swoop
Year
2015
Key phrases
rural ireland, ghosts, folk tales, hand processing, diy
Language
English
Duration
01:12:00
Original formats
Physical: Film: 16mm
Aspect ratio
2.39 Scope
Colour
Mixture
Sound
Yes
