chronomops

The doors of perception, electronic style. Tina Frank´s Chronomops opens doors to truly different di-mensions: different than digital art´s reductionist studies so com-mon today, different than the serially
laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments. Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colourful space that is simultaneously an excess of colour, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical colour bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselves and the entire system likewise rotates. The forced, in part jerky movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.
A system surfacing as though out of a void, steadily plunging through its own dynamic into new excesses of mobility, while adventurously hopping axes, temporarily dissolving into two-dimensional stripes, then lapsing again into a prismatic staccato of light and colour, tend-ing
towards a 90 degree angle, sideward leaving an extreme dizzying feeling in its wake. Chronomops, accompanied by music from General Magic, which is also composed as a slip stream, thus shows what the pop psyche-delics always knew to be true: that the "other" side looms right around the corner of the perfect groove, a labyrinth of colours and forms set in irregular motion, which merely has to be raised from its invisibility and liberated from its incomprehensible state. Electronic music´s inner life has seldom appeared so colourful and captivating.

(Christian Höller)

Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt

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Diagonale Preis Innovatives Kino 2006 - Jury-Begründung (Award)

Konsequent erweitert Tina Frank mittlerweile etablierte formalästhetische Kriterien des neueren abstrakten Videos. In ihrer aktuellen Arbeit baut sie einen auf grafischen Layers aufgebauten "psychedelischen" Farb-Körper, der in seiner hohen Dynamik gängige Paapparative Grenze des Bildes expandiert.

Jury:
Sandro Droschl (Curator "Kunstverein Medienturm", AT)
Angela Haardt (Curator for Media Art, DE)
Michael Palm (Filmmaker, Filmtheorist, AT)
Orig. Title
chronomops
Year
2005
Country
Austria
Duration
2 min
Director
Tina Frank
Category
Animation/Computeranimation
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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chronomops (Image)
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Credits
Director
Tina Frank
Concept & Realization
Tina Frank
Music
General Magic
Available Formats
Digital File (prores, h264) (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour
Festivals (Selection)
2005
Seoul - EXis (Experimental Film- & Videofestival)
Helsinki - Avanto Media Art Festival
Utrecht - Impakt Festival
2006
Edinburgh - Kill your timid notion
Paris - Némo Festival
Windsor - Media City
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (Award for Innovative Cinema)
Onion City - Film Festival Chicago
Leeds - Int. FilmFestival
2007
Wroclaw - WRO-International Media Art Biennale