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Crystal World (2013)
Directed by Pia Borg
Animation, Fantasy, Mystery · 12m
Crystal World is inspired by J.G Ballard’s apocalyptic science fiction novel of the same name where a viral crystal metamorphoses trees, animals, humans and architecture into frozen jewels forever suspended in time and space. The novel is a haunting portrait of a world in which everything is illuminated by prismatic light, a ‘leaking’ of time that causes humans to experience individual moments endlessly looped, repeated and prolonged. My film adapts this concept of crystallization and applies it to fragments from the 1955 film. I reconstruct scenes from Charles Laughton’s iconic film with underwater puppets, which I then crystallize using ammonium phosphate crystals, time-lapse photography, mirrors, prisms, and projectors. (http://piaborg.com)
Crew
- Director
- Pia Borg
- Writer
- Pia Borg
Details
- Release date
- 2013-07-01
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Australia