If You Stand with Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water
Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes through glass. Near the film's end the tram lands in Manhattan, as if it had reversed direction; as in all of Murray's films, the images and the editing can pull several ways at once. There are no absolutes, and even the light by which we see is altered by the material it passes through. – Fred Camper
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1997 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | Julie Murray |
| Runtime | 18 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 3.0/10 (1 votes) |
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The film constructs a kinetic poem from seemingly disparate observations, moving from the macro of urban transit to the micro of insect life. It explores the relativity of perception, where motion and stillness, beginning and end, lack fixed coordinates.
What lingers after is a sense of a fluid, mutable reality where the very act of observation becomes part of its fabric. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Julie Murray
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In quiet, dim light, allowing its meditative rhythm to fully absorb you.
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