SCALE - Guido van Helten

Описание: Official Selection / Finalist / Category Winner
Best Cinematography / Best Documentary Short
Mindfield Film Festival
Berlin Flash Film Festival (Germany)
Blue2Blue Drone Film Festival (Australia)
Largo Film Awards
Los Angeles Cinefest
Sacramento International Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Grenoble Street Art Festival

Film and Music by Brian Siskind
www.thosedrones.com

Mural by Guido van Helten.

Special thanks to the Nashville Walls Project.

Filmed with a drone over 17 days in May/June 2017, SCALE is a black and white non-narrative documentary short that proposes a quiet meditation on the notion of scale and perception - featuring world renowned muralist Guido van Helten painting a monolith 200 foot tall abandoned grain silo mural in Nashville.

I aimed to capture something of the feeling and effect that scale wields. What is gained by large scale work and what is perhaps lost? The same work on paper in hand - would it be the same?

I wanted to document the absolute grind of this process as well as the feeling of living with the evolving piece - the slower tempo - the sheer magnitude of the work. No footage is sped up or slowed down. No fade in and out. It is a 15 minute homage and portrait of an incredible amount of hard work, seen through the objectively abstract point of view that black and white forces.

When you have a quiet place and 15 minutes...

Brian Siskind
www.briansiskind.com