Parallax
 
16mm / silent / 6:00

   


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par·al·lax

From parallaxis
From para + allassein to change
From allos other

  1. the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.

  2. the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun.

  3. the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder.
 

Press
  
Senses of Cinema (Issue 53)
Time Will Tell: The 13th Annual Views From the Avant-Garde and the Walking Picture Palace
by Patrick Friel

"For the program notes for his film Parallax, Christopher Becks provides three dictionary definitions of the term – all of which centre on the notion of displacement. A conceit, certainly, but an apt one for this visually jarring travel film shot over three continents. Becks’ seemingly disjointed editing creates unexpected, confounding and constantly shifting rhythms that gain meaning through accumulation. Where most travel films aim for creating pictorial beauty or a “sense of a place”, Becks seems interested in conveying the feeling of disorientation or lack of sync with one’s surroundings that travelers can have. Stranger in a strange land might be too obvious: Becks does allow for moments of respite and recognition between headlong rushes forward. Finally, though, it’s a masterful take on being out of place."
 
 

Screenings
 
19.02.2010    Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Tokyo)
05.11.2009    Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa)
04.10.2009    New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant-Garde
28.09.2009    Pacific Cinematheque (Victoria, B.C.)
23.09.2009    25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb)
19.06.2009    Onion City Film Festival (Chicago)
17.06.2009    Edinburgh International Film Festival
     04.2009    Hallwalls Gallery (Buffalo)
22.04.2009    The Austrian Film Museum
03.12.2008    L’Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
24.10.2008    TIE / The International Experimental Cinema Exhibition (Paonia, Colorado)
16.10.2008    Lighthouse Series presented by the Loop Collective (Toronto)
20.09.2008    Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, B.C.)
20.09.2008    Light Cone (Paris)
05.09.2008    EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival (Seoul)