Length: 06:47
Logline: Slow motion photography.
If you like watching things getting shot, smashed, drenched and crushed in slow motion, then this film is for you. There's a lot of the bog standard bullets through wine glasses and playing cards so not terribly original on that note. I have to presume at this point that Tempus I was more of the same. Saying that, it is very much experimental. Some sequences don't work out as well as expected, some even fail to make an impact (the projectile hitting the wine glasses etc).
I don't know if it was the relaxed ambient soundtrack and the frame by frame photography but it felt like I was watching this for over ten minutes, not just six. Actually, the soundtrack is the more interesting aspect for me. Lots of slowed down audio is used to make wonderful effects which complement the on screen visuals very well. Photography is sharp and clean and well framed, lighting is excellent, but then again, it is in a studio. And the piece is edited together okay. My only advise would be that Tempus III, if there is one, takes slow mo to the extreme and doesn't play it as safe as this does and delivers something we haven't seen before.
Best Bit: Karate chop through concrete slabs which looks like the guy's just fractured every bone in his hand.
Worst Bit: Coloured water drops. Is it really that interesting?
Final thought: That's a hell of a clean up job some body's got to do.
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