Portable Film Festival

Film Details

Director: Sixty40 Duration: 00:03:16 Year: 2009 Created at: Australia Website: http://www.sixty40.com Festival Year: 2009

Brief

The clip was shot with 2 x P2 cameras. Shot stereoscopically (i.e. on 2 identical cameras separated in space to mimic 2 eyes) the clip uses a flicking technique that was inspired by 2 frame animations.

"Battlestar" is the story of a deceivingly sized binocular spaceship coming to earth and decimating an unsuspecting b-boy in order to conquer the universe. Harmonic 313 (aka Mark Pritchard aka Troubleman aka Reload aka 1/2 of Global Communications aka 1/2 of the The Jedi knights...) came to Sixty40 for his first ever film clip. Despite releasing seminal records since the 90's and being on Warp Records since 1994 and being the poster child for super-technical, superbly-crafted, bass heavy, crazy-ass electronica there'd never been anything to translate his floor-filling tracks on TV. Crazy.

Sixty40 had to pioneer a variety of new techniques to take an entirely open brief into a eye-popping warning of extra-terrestrial doom.

In this technique, a sense of depth is provided to the footage by changing between the left and right eye views between each frame. In moving footage, not only does it add a sense of depth but also a definite intensity and alternative reality to each scene. For different people, it can create a curious mental floatiness in some shots.

As a side note, this curious technique comes at a time when big production companies are clamouring to make 3D Stereoscopic movies and nimbly flips the idea on it's ass.

Please enjoy responsibly and view with caution if flickering imagery is medically unsound for you.

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