A Seed Is Planted

A Seed is Planted immerses the viewer in the materiality of forms as they flow, merge into each other, and drift apart – pulsating surfaces and polarized refractions of light. Complex field structures mysteriously emerge before disintegrating again or forming interference. Dancing drops crystallize out of heavy, reflective liquids, only to dissolve and melt away in the next moment. 

The experimental film is an homage to liquid crystals. Accompanied by Stefan Németh’s atmospheric sound and a poetic-theoretical lecture which excerpts Esther Leslie’s book Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form, Gregor Eldarb devotes himself to the visualization of this...

Orig. Title
A Seed Is Planted
Year
2024
Country
Austria
Duration
10 min
Director
Gregor Eldarb
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
Credits
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