Flatform: In natura non esistono effetti speciali, solo consequenze [With nature there are no special effects, only consequences]


A man is shot inside an empty room and he moves and takes on positions continuously out of  barycentre.
The nature of the lacks of balance is invisible and his ability into standing up in spite of unnatural postures is inexplicable: this video has been realized without special effects but is simply the result of a real shooting of an artificial condition.
With nature there are no special effects, only consequencesoutlines a declared state of suspense or unstable equilibrium between the abstract and the unexpected, control and chance, inertia and sudden shock. To be more precise the exact point of instant contact between the state of foresight and the extra ordinary.
This work moves along an ideal border-line, the one  of meaning, which articulates the difference between possibility and impossibility, between movement and pose (pause). The impossible impends on the possible, at least as much as the possible verifies the impossible.

For Flatform, constructing a territory implies stirring events and creating spaces, concepts and inertia. Causing  interactions between objects rather than interventions. Promoting relationships of position that are movements. Determining actions rather than depictions.

Flatform is a group of artists founded in 2006 and based in Milan and Berlin. The group works on video and time based installations including mobile installations. Works by Flatform have been featured in several film festivals all over the world such as Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; LOOP Festival, Barcelona; Melbourne Film Festival; CFC Worldwide, Toronto; Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam; Venice Intl. Film Festival; Intl. Film Festival Oberhausen, Rio de Janeiro Intl. Short Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Lisbon, and in many exhibitions in museums and institutions including, among others, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MARCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy, Kulturhuset in Stockhom, CCR Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Ayres.
Works by Flatform have been awarded at Screen Festival 2008, in Oslo, 25FPS 2009, in Zagreb, Lago Film Festival 2010 in Revine Lago, Festival du Court Metrage 2011 in Lille.
On February 2011 Arte TV has dedicated part of the program Die Nacht/La Nuit to some works by Flatform.

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