Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

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This movie was shot in 16 mm film in the southwestern Brazilian rainforest, the Mata Atlântica, with a custom modified camera. Following strategies of structural film making, 16mm plays with the footage roll used to film it as constitutive base of its form and content. A 16 mm film standard roll of 200 feet (60.96 meters) gives an approximate duration of 5' 33" (333"). That means 1 meter of film is consumed every 5.46 seconds or 18.3 cm. every second.

16mm color mute

Spiral Forest was shoot with a custom made gimbal. The main specificity of this machine was that its movements are powered with the same motor that makes the camera film, making filming and moving indisociable. when you turn on the camera and the film started to roll, the camera itself started to rotate, in a planet that is also spining, revolving arround the sun in a whirling galaxy. The Chiasmic Entanglement between the viewer and the image turns upside down our bodies, making the phenomenological apprehension of the film at the same time physical and mental, disolving oneself in the complexity of forms of the branches, trunks leaves and vines of the forest.