Sensory Warp
2018 · 10m
Directed by Alvaro Chior
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A psychedelic audio-visual experience designed to disorient perception — an experimental work in the tradition of expanded cinema and synaesthetic film.
Picked by Felix
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Alvaro Chior made ten minutes of visual disorientation and gave it the most honest title in experimental film — if you need plot, keep scrolling.
Pure synaesthetic assault with no narrative scaffolding is a venerable mode going back to Belson and Brakhage — at 10 minutes it has to earn its imposition, and the Vimeo page tells me almost nothing about whether Chior does.
10 minutes of pure psychedelic sensory assault as the entire premise — the page tells me nothing concrete and there's no narrative anchor. Could be transcendent, could be a screensaver. Reserve judgment.