INFOaudio: General Magic
video: Tina Frank
length: 2 min
produced: 2005
chronomops received first price in 2006 at diagonale 06 for best innovative, experimental, animation-
or shortfilm 2005/2006.
chronomops was first released on Crnica (prt)
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Accompanied by music from General Magic, Chronomops is a vibrant abstract field of multi-
coloured bars and lines constantly in motion, created with precision and admirable brevity. (avantofestival)
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The doors of perception, electronic style.Tina Franks Chronomops opens doors to truly different dimensions: different than digital arts reductionist studies so common today, different than the serially laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments.
Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colorful space that is simultaneously an excess of color, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical color bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselvesand the entire system likewise rotates. The forced movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.
A system surfacing as though out of a void, steadily plunging through its own dynamic into new excesses of mobility, while adventurously hopping axes, temporarily dissolving into two-dimensional stripes, then lapsing again into a prismatic staccato of light and color, tending towards a 90 degree angle, sideward leaving an extreme dizzying feeling in its wake. Chronomops, accompanied by music from General Magic, which is also composed as a slip stream, thus shows what the pop psychedelics always knew to be true: that the other side looms right around the corner of the perfect groove, a labyrinth of colors and forms set in irregular motion, which merely has to be raised from its invisibility and liberated from its incomprehensible state. Electronic musics inner life has seldom appeared so colorful and captivating.
(Christian Hller for sixpackfilm)
Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt 
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