O T H E R W O R L D S
by Ivan Maria Friedman
Switzerland 2020
Length: 13 min
An ode to the infinity of worlds forever unreachable to us, hidden in the unknown of our galaxy and billions other galaxies like ours
Since 2013 I have been developing a personal approach to near Infra-Red cinematography with the idea that looking at our world under a different light could give us access to other spheres of perceptions. I produced a first work in black and white in 2015 named Wilderness, then a second one - Eclipse in 2018 - with those techniques.
To create OTHER WORLDS, I've travelled to the Atacama desert in Northern Chile in summer 2015 with a Near-Infrared sensitive high resolution camera and shot as much footage as I could during my 3 weeks stay. On the Altiplano, it looked as if time stopped its course a few billions years ago, while the night sky offered to the naked eye an incredibly clear view of our Galaxy. Overall, the feeling of belonging to something much vaster then our Earth can't be but obvious for any visitors.
I kept the footage preciously and worked on it periodically since then, improving the shots and the compositions when I had the time. At the same time I was looking for more material to include in the film. The works on Nebulas are the fruit of a great collaboration between Visual Artist Teun van der Zalm and myself. I also composed shots using the best Nasa photographic material of our solar system I could find and also footage from weather Cinematographers Dustin Farrell and Chad Cowan, and some of my own previous footage.
This short film is certainly a visualisation of far away planets, but like a metaphor, It also wants to be an invitation to explore worlds of our perceptions - our perspective on Men and its place in the Universe -The way we see our planet, the fragile yet violent chemistry that is necessary for life to emerge anywhere in the Universe.
IVAN MARIA FRIEDMAN
Direction, Cinematography, postproduction, visual effects, compositing and editing
TEUN VAN DER ZALM
Visual Effects Artist
DUSTIN FARRELL, CHAD COWAN
Additionnal Cinematography
ALEXANDER OLFERT
Compositing assistant
