Vista 8

Director: Ben Slater.

Winner, 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies.

From http://www.ballardian.com/ballardian-festival-the-final-cut ...

JOHN: Monochrome location scouting inside a high-rise hotel that looks half-finished. Remnants of an affair litter the piece: photographs, a high heel and the cutting to two cars so close together it would be difficult not to predict a Crash. As Christopher Brookmyre said, beware half-finished places, you know, the Death Star, Jurassic Park, Nakatomi Plaza...

SIMON: Ben's film, shot among the high-rises of Singapore, seems to me like it's recording the last moments of a suicide. Perhaps we can infer that it's only after the subject has died that this private anthology of repression and desire is halfheartedly decoded by, say, a bored security guard chancing upon the body, who then uses the phone to call his mistress in the extreme outer suburbs. But really, I'm making all this up. I do like the snatched inclusion of Bowie's man-machine classic, 'Always Crashing in the Same Car'.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• jg-ballard
• ballardian

[psychicguitar]

tastey!

[pansatiros]

Really excellent!

[missloserlusa]

woo ben!