uchronia, no.1 (2020)

Format: HD, b&w and colour
Country: UK
Duration: 4 mins
Direction / Camera / Editing: Kamila Kuc
Sound: Rob Godman

Past time, suspended time. Macro vision serves as a tool to experience what has long been known. Perceptual tension between the in and out of focus, between enquiry and observation, abstraction and representation persuade the body to look and experience more intently. At once disturbing and nostalgic, the soundtrack lures the viewer into a claustrophobic and apocalyptic space as we have to find new ways of being with the world. Filmed and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Waterlow Park, London and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire.

’Seductively textured images contrast against intimate and claustrophobic sounds, forming an eerily demanding observational experience.’ Kerry Jones, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (2021)

Made for mirarnos a los ojos, special online Edition of Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Screenings:
The Light & Shadow Salon: Antidotes to Chaos Part 1: Pushing the Raft Out to Sea, The Horse Hospital, London, 2022.
Swedenborg Film Festival, London, 2021.
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, 2021.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2021.
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Winner of the Jury Award, 2021.
Experiments in Cinema, vol.16.1, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2021.
SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XV, Timisoara, Romania, 2020.
International Moving Film Festival, Arvand Free Zone, Iran, 2020.
mirarnos a los ojos, special online Edition of Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020, ongoing.