The Mammals of Victoria (1994)

01/01/1994 (US) • 34m

Documentary

Overview

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes step-printed hand-painting, abstractions composed of distorted (jammed) TV shapes in shades of blue with occasional red, refractions of light within the camera lens, sometimes mixed with reflections of water. Increasingly closer images of water, and of light reflected off water, as well as of bursts of fire, intersperse the long shots, the seascapes and all the other interwoven imagery. Eventually a distant volleyball arcs across the sky: this is closely followed by, and interspersed with, silhouettes of a young man and woman in the sea, which leads to some extremely out-of-focus images from a front car window, an opening between soft-focus trees, a clearing. Carved wooden teeth suddenly sweep across the frame. Then the film ends on some soft-focus horizon lines, foregrounded by ocean.

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Part of the Vancouver Island Quartet

Includes A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea, The Mammals of Victoria, The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him

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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

-

Revenue

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Keywords

avant-garde

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