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Using a fixed camera position, water was recorded spiraling down a plughole. Alterations in speed and direction are used to create a continuous loop in which water rhythmically rises and falls, enters and emerges. As it does so, the circular shape is transformed and reflections are revealed, hidden or distorted, creating the illusion that the subject of the piece is not a solid object but, rather, a mercurial, liquid substance. The "eye" of the camera interacts with the "eye" of the plughole, questioning the relationship between observer and observed.
The motif of the spiral is found in diverse cultures, both East and West. For Carl Jung, a clockwise spiral denoted the unfolding of the unconscious into consciousness. Gaston Bachelard, in The Poetics of Space, describes man's being as a spiral within which are many "invertible dynamisms". Bachelard was referring to the symmetric language of the unconscious, of our dreams, in which inside and outside, past and future, are equivalent and interchangeable. Full Circle uses the metaphor of the spiral and the language of symmetry, in the form of time inversion and loops, to allude to the workings of the mind and to induce a meditative state in the viewer in which time and space expand and become fluid.
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Patricia Townsend (their other films)
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Genre: Experimental |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Copyright Year: 2003 |
| Original Format: mini DV |
Color Type: Color |
| Sound Type: Magnetic Stereo |
Length: 00:03:00 |
| Original Language: None |
Subtitle Language: None |
Music:
O quam mirabilis by Sequentia used courtesy of BMG Classics |
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