Els van Riel
2021Gradual Speed
Els van Riel
“Carefully positioned, the camera begins on a single frame, the shutter held open, and then is imperceptibly increased in speed, quickening the frame rate and thus changing the exposure time for each successive frame, which slowly produces a visible moving image whose speed eventually falls into step with real time. For a film whose title describes the relatively simple mechanism used to create it, Gradual Speed ushers a series of startling transfigurations which brilliantly engage with the extended time spent with people, animals, events and objects in whose company the filmmaker sketches larger concerns of love, fixity, representation and loss.” — Julie Murray
Gradual Speed
Fugue, A Light’s Travelogue
Els van Riel
Through this work I’ve been exploring the physical consistency of Light, sunlight as well as artificial light. A complete answer or formula has not been found. Finding a way to express the wish to understand is what this film is about.
Fugue, A Light’s Travelogue
Buchstabe
Els van Riel
BUCHSTABE is a word meaning letter in English (and in Dutch), originally a piece of beechwood carved out to cover with ink to press on paper to compose a word taking place in a sentence. The word BUCHSTABE printed on film makes my mind follow its being printed. Two words printed in different fonts, and projected on top of each other make as much sense as a sentence pointing out the beauty of the original printing process.
Buchstabe