A room in winter
A fixed-camera portrait of one room and its light, from Sant'Ambrogio to New Year.
One camera position, locked off, facing the west wall of the studio. One frame every thirty seconds, from the seventh of December to the first of January. The film is what the room did with that month: the parallelogram of sun that walks the wall and shortens daily until the solstice, then — imperceptibly at first — begins to climb back.
People pass through, but at this compression they become weather. A visit is a flicker; an afternoon of work is a shadow that leans; Christmas is a warm lamp burning in the corner of six consecutive seconds. What persists at this timescale is not activity but arrangement — the chair, the window, the light obeying its enormous clock.
I made it to learn what the eye can't sample and patience can. The solstice is visible. You can watch the year turn on a wall.
Player to come with the media phase; the poster is a procedural stand-in in this film's shade.