Ten Meter Tower
2016 · 16m · Sweden
Directed by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, humorous, tender, tense
Sixty-seven people who have never stood on a 10-meter diving platform must choose whether to jump or climb back down, creating a gripping study of human fear, courage, and vulnerability.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Sixty-seven people deciding whether to jump — that's the entire concept and somehow it works for sixteen minutes straight. Suspiciously simple, but I'll take it.
Danielson and Van Aertryck's fixed-frame study of indecision is deceptively simple — a documentary concept distilled to pure phenomenology of fear. The Vimeo upload from Plattform is reliable.
Fixed wide-camera plus 67 amateur subjects on the 10m platform - the conceptual constraint IS the entire psychology experiment, and 16:18 of footage is exactly enough. Vimeo confirms the runtime and the explicit framing-as-experiment in the directors' note.
Reviews
Ten Meter Tower has such a simple and compelling idea that it's hard to imagine a programmer not wanting to watch it with a big audience.
Directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck found something interesting and created something entertaining—and more powerfully, they created something that begs to be shared.
Festivals
- Berlin International Film Festival 2016
- Sundance Film Festival 2017
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017, Jury Award & Audience Award
- Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017, Audience Award