Saturday 17 August 2019

There Is Something,

mesmerising,


 about watching these paintballs,

 as they roll, explode, and merge across the screen,

 set to a soundtrack by Dmitry Evgrafov,

 the film is the work of filmmaker Rus Khasanov who was working on a challenging shoot in Seoul, South Korea when he got the idea for this latest experimental film, Unity

 Khasanov had been attempting to make two paint balls merge perfectly for his original commercial shoot, which he was finally able to achieve on the last day of shooting by chance and luck, 

 after several various ingredient experiments, he was able to learn how to get paint balls to absorb without bursting. “When you master the technique,” he explains, 

“you can already playfully turn the flaws into advantages: now in the bursting paint ball I see not a nightmare, but a bright colorful explosion which reminds me of fireworks.”


You can see more of Khasanov’s short films on Vimeo and Instagram, paintballs, and all I thought you did with paintballs was to shot them at each other in a paintball park!


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