WAVE FORM explores movie viewing, sharing, and making as a means of confronting the experience of mental illness. It illuminates the sustaining, transformative powers of film by transforming a variety of waves from cinematic historyocean waves, waving hands, waves of soldiersthrough the luma waveform scope, a technical feature of movie editing software. Converted into luma waveforms, the original filmic images are rendered unrecognizable, their representational nature exchanged for a ghostly, mesmerizing shimmer. Through these transformations, WAVE FORMs narrator, Luma, introduces the filmmakers struggle with depression and suicidal ideation, only to then meditate lyrically upon how the filmmaker has been preserved, sustained, and inspired by the movie as wave: as greeting, as lifting height, as surface with nourishing depth. The array of cinematic waves Luma namesthe spectral renderings ranging from JAWS to MUSTANG to LA DOLCE VITA, from MOONLIGHT to CLOSE-UP to THE GLEANERS AND Iare hauntingly defamiliarized, made stunningly new, as their solid figures dissolve in an aurora borealis-like dance. WAVE FORM is a testament to the curative power of film, and creativity itself. Above all, it is a film about beliefbelief in our creations to express and connect us, and belief in ourselves to create and endure.
- Runtime8 minutes
- CountryCanada
- DirectorTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- ScreenwriterTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- ProducerTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- CastMargaret Brock
WAVE FORM explores movie viewing, sharing, and making as a means of confronting the experience of mental illness. It illuminates the sustaining, transformative powers of film by transforming a variety of waves from cinematic historyocean waves, waving hands, waves of soldiersthrough the luma waveform scope, a technical feature of movie editing software. Converted into luma waveforms, the original filmic images are rendered unrecognizable, their representational nature exchanged for a ghostly, mesmerizing shimmer. Through these transformations, WAVE FORMs narrator, Luma, introduces the filmmakers struggle with depression and suicidal ideation, only to then meditate lyrically upon how the filmmaker has been preserved, sustained, and inspired by the movie as wave: as greeting, as lifting height, as surface with nourishing depth. The array of cinematic waves Luma namesthe spectral renderings ranging from JAWS to MUSTANG to LA DOLCE VITA, from MOONLIGHT to CLOSE-UP to THE GLEANERS AND Iare hauntingly defamiliarized, made stunningly new, as their solid figures dissolve in an aurora borealis-like dance. WAVE FORM is a testament to the curative power of film, and creativity itself. Above all, it is a film about beliefbelief in our creations to express and connect us, and belief in ourselves to create and endure.
- Runtime8 minutes
- CountryCanada
- DirectorTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- ScreenwriterTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- ProducerTiz (Daniel Tysdal)
- CastMargaret Brock