carte noire

White flashes in the dark of the night. As though etched out, dabbed in. Flickering specters, ghostly visions. A veritable phantom ride, a film of tension.

In carte noire, Michaela Grill’s sinister road movie miniature, she continues her cinematic movement from an object’s abstraction to its alienation. She now arrives at a classical, and highly charged motif from popular culture and cinema: the lonely car ride on an empty road through the countryside, which more or less automatically sets off trans-genre associations. Not only at the surprising end, one can assume that hinted at here, among other things, is a...

Orig. Title
carte noire
Year
2014
Countries
Austria, Canada
Duration
2 min 30 sec
Director
Michaela Grill
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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