Windmill III
Chris Welsby
1974 - 10 min - 16 mm - Couleur - Royaume-Uni

The camera films a park landscape through the flat mirror blades of a small windmill.
The film was shot in one continuous four hundred foot take. The rhythm is determined by the speed and direction of the wind. The rotation of the mirrored windmill blades causes the image on the screen to alternate between the space in front of the camera, seen intermittently through the blades, and the space behind the camera, reflected in the blades.
When the windmill reaches a particular speed, a third space is also created as the deep space of the picture plane fragments and becomes a two dimensional abstract surface of colour and light.

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Author-Director : Chris Welsby
Photography : Chris Welsby
Editing : Chris Welsby
Delegate Producer : Chris Welsby

Distribution


Distributor : Lux
DVD Editing : BFI (British Film Institute)