Cristaux (1978)Without warning, a brisk flurry of pulsing forward zooms turn light reflected on lapping water into violent streaks of explosive orange. When a human figure appears (Gaël Badaud), he smokes casually as the visuals continue to swirl around him with hectic persistence. Although the soundtrack is completely silent, there is noise enough in the image. Teo Hernández seems to observe and manipulate the surface of water in every conceivable way, hammering at it with the zoom lens lever, swinging the camera as if in a balletic trance, observing from a distance and in extreme close-up so as to capture individual flecks of light, even rapidly cutting between fleeting glimpses of the water’s surface from a (nearly) static viewpoint, animating it from cuts alone. The water’s surface is that of the Seine river, as made explicit in the title, L’eau de la Seine (1983). As the film progresses,...
- 10/8/2021
- MUBI
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