Reza Tajiki
Reza Tajiki
Watch the film — Vimeo, unlisted.
Made as a bachelor project and deliberately shot on a phone. The camera is not an observer but an emotional body: its movement twists orientation, tips the room over and makes disorientation tangible, as if reality briefly slipped its axis.
The camera movement is inspired by the radical, body-close work of Gaspar Noé — not as a copy, but as an impulse for an own visual attitude.
The film is the practical part of my bachelor's thesis — the theoretical part examines how Gaspar Noé's imagery challenges the viewer's state of attention. Marie is writing a screenplay, and the camera takes on the role of her thoughts: everything we see happens inside her head. Only in the apartment does it become clear that the story until then was Marie's fiction — and in the bar, that she recognised herself and Lena inside her own narrative.
Hence floating camera movements instead of static shots, blurred images and indistinct sound — thoughts are never clear. Black pauses sit between the scenes, resembling the moment a gaze travels from one thing to the next. It was deliberately shot on a phone with a gimbal: light enough to lead the movement myself.
