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Mamori

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  • Animation

Overview

Mamori transports us into a black-and-white universe of fluid shapes, dappled and striated with shadows and light, where the texture of the visuals and of the celluloid itself have been transformed through the filmmaker’s artistry. The raw material of images and sounds was captured in the Amazon rainforest by filmmaker Karl Lemieux and avant-garde composer Francisco López, a specialist in field recordings. Re-filming the photographs on 16 mm stock, then developing the film stock itself and digitally editing the whole, Lemieux transmutes the raw images and accompanying sounds into an intense sensory experience at the outer limits of representation and abstraction. Fragmented musical phrases filter through the soundtrack, evoking in our imagination the clamour of the tropical rainforest in this remote Amazonian location called Mamori.

Keywords

  • abstract
  • geometric shapes
  • shapes
  • sensorial

Details

Status
Released
Release date
January 13, 2010
Original language
XX
Countries
Canada
Production
ONF,NFB
Director
Karl Lemieux
Cinematography
Karl Lemieux
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
Mamori (2010) | Kinocult