DUDE

DUDE
a film by
Oscar van Dillen 2011

A montage of photographs of a t-shirt as worn by my son Bran

Music: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin – Five Preludes, Op 74: No 3: Allegro drammatico – performed by Piers Lane, piano

Full Moon in Perigee

Full Moon in Perigee
a film by
Oscar van Dillen 2011

One shot movie of the Full Moon in Perigee, the closest point of its orbit around the Earth, rising in Rotterdam on 19 March 2011. At this point the moon is seen 14% larger than usual.

Filmed with 54x zoom, the color changes are those my Canon camera makes to adjust to the changing light. A deliberate diagonal composition, with a rooftop vent in the bottom left, and some help from a nightly flock of birds which happen to fly “through the moon” before it turns white again and disappears towards the top right.

While our starlit sister-planet travels through the view, the music accompanies its nightly take-off.

Music: GuZheng, a traditional Chinese Pipa1 composition titled “Moonlit night of spring river”

Shores

Shores
A visual fantasy inspired by the work of Isolde Venrooy.
Oscar van Dillen 2011

Venrooy’s canvas “Where do I pick up my last minute” (2011) has such a unique scope of scale that it is almost impossible to capture it in a photograph, so I decided to film it. At low speed, and with enhanced contrast and image processing, to me it became something like a small voyage along what Carl Sagan used to call “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”. Combined with the music of Stefan Micus playing the Shō2 (Ocean Part IV, 1986), this short film gives a personal view on the original work by Isolde Venrooy.

EYE AM I

Eye am I
A short silent portrait of Dutch visual artist Elise van Rosmalen
Oscar van Dillen 2012

Dutch visual artist Elise van Rosmalen has an extraordinary sense of visual perception, a unique way of seeing, the results of which can be seen in her works. The activity prior to her creative work is in her very seeing while looking, an impression of which I tried to capture in this short movie.

For works by Elise van Rosmalen see www.elisevanrosmalen.nl

Music: John Cage – Composed Improvisation (1987)

Filmed on location at Restaurant Oliva, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Footnotes

  1. Pipa = a Chinese lute; see Wikipedia on the Pipa
  2. Sho = a vertical Japanese mouth organ with reeds; see Wikipedia on the Shō