[EQUILIBRIUM]
2017 · 10m · Canada
Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A visual and musical exploration scored by Jordan Nobles and performed by the Ethos Collective chamber ensemble, capturing live performances of marimba, flute, vibraphone, piano, saxophone, and electric guitar in meditative visual sequences.
Picked by Zoe
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Radovanovic holds his camera on these musicians with the kind of sustained formal patience that the NYC IFF selection confirmed — he's making a case for the visual weight of acoustic performance without any documentary scaffolding to lean on.
A ten-minute chamber-music recital with pretty 4K coverage isn't a film; it's a concert deliverable. The Wiseman comparison is delusional.
Ten minutes of sustained chamber-ensemble performance as pure visual and sonic meditation — that's a Wiseman/Straub-Huillet discipline, and it lives or dies on whether Radovanovic can hold attention without intercutting. Risky in the right way.