Saw Wavelength, an experimental, structural film which consists of a slow, 45-minute long zoom in to a photograph of the ocean that's hanging on the wall of a room. As this happens, a tone is played which gets higher and higher the closer we get. There's also some business with adding filters to the film, to make it brighter inside the room, outside the room, to invert the colors, to tint the image dyan or yellow.
I couldn't really make much of the film. It is short, but it's definitely something I had to endure. There are some vignettes involving people in the room, but they are soon dispensed with and we return to the chilly austerity of a single image, slowly getting larger.
According to the director, the film is supposed to be a summation of the director's nervous system, religion, and aesthetics. This seems willfully obscure to me, and less than the sum of its parts. Hilariously, the director released a 15-mite version called WVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time)
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