Oscar

Film

HEAD Geneva

Led by : Alexandra Midal

2020

Team : Rachel Hoffmann, Alesaandra Hofmann

Oscar is an experimental film based on the visual perception loss of the Impressionist artist Oscar-Claude Monet. 

The idea for the project was developed by experimenting with materials that influence perception, such as lenses, broken glass, marbles or acrylic. In order to make the continuously increasing loss of vision visually perceptible, specific analogue filters were produced which impair vision in order to create an abstract form of communication. The result of this process is the creation of a new narrative composed by visual experiments and optical wanderings. 

The filming production took place in the Californian desert, precisely at Rainbow Basin, a geological site characterized by its colorful rock formations. The filmographic result is engaging, subtle, mesmerizing and sometimes unexpected at the same time. The film explores a new dimension of seeing, where the real seeing of an artist is not depicted, but a new interpretation is created for the invisible.

The film does not follow a historical temporality and clearly distances itself from the individual case of Claude Monet, thus allowing a transfer to other cases of vision loss.