4:3
2019 · 5m · United Kingdom
Directed by Ross Hogg
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
Twelve hand-painted 16mm projections combine in an interactive 360-degree visual experiment exploring the relationship between sound and image.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Hand-painted 16mm in a 360-degree projection setup sounds like gallery-world peacocking, but the fact that it's actually *interactive*—that the viewer's position rewrites the image—is the kind of formal inversion that earns its own weirdness rather than demanding it.
Hogg's commitment to analog abstraction and spatial composition places this firmly in the lineage of structuralist cinema and immersive installation art; the technical constraint of 12 synchronized projections reads as both conceptual rigor and painterly restraint.
The decisive move here is treating the viewer's body as the edit—instead of cutting between images, the filmmaker let spatial movement *be* the cut, which on a five-minute 16mm budget is the kind of economy that rewires how you think about montage.
Reviews
Dive into something a bit entrancing and completely experimental. 4:3 is a new short film made by creative filmmaker Ross Hogg, and it's barely 5 minutes in total so it's a quick watch.