"It is no longer time that exists between two instant; it is the event that is a meanwhile" D.N.Rodowick The memory of resistance

The Turning Point is a short film filmed on Howth road in north Dublin. It opens with a shot of a suburban early modernist type house and cuts to various shots of the surroundings; the street, trees, cars, leaves on the ground. It then cuts to a dark interior shot of the house where a man is lying on the bed watching the patterns of light on the ceiling caused by the cars passing outside. He gets up, turning, listening to the traffic and walks to the window. Three things then occur at the same time; the man opens the curtains, a car passes by and a tree on the road rotates and spins around from the momentum of the car's passing. Momentarily, one experiences a spatial and temporal rapport but one that is ungrounded. An aberrant movement of stimulation and response. The still image of the tree oscillates between latency and potency.

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