BETWEEN PLACES is a master film made by Loes Vanneste.
She plunged herself into a residual product, a banal piece of dust, something meaningless, that is always present in every place, every wind and under every bed. Unnoticed, the dust particles move about, gradually accumulating into a gray, downy mass. They fill the cracks and holes we unknowingly pass by. We live through them, not with them. According to a description from the Bible gospel, we and everything around us are dust. We emerge from it and decay back into it: "For he knows we are but dust and that our days are few and brief, like grass, like flowers, blown by the wind and gone forever." Dust here symbolizes a kind of transition space, a liminal phase in which form and life decays into an amorphous mass and just as quickly and solid whether lifeless or not will rise from it. So she started looking at the dust she gathered in her room with a microscope. As a discoverer/scientist she created a liminal dream with the the beautiful world she discovered in a piece of dust.
Synopsis:
Somewhere in the depths of space, the thoughts and memories of what once was are flying around. There lies the palace of dust, inhabited by a transparent beast that rearranges, shifts and consumes all particles of dust. "Where am I?" Sounds in the open space. It's a woman who has been led by her dream to the palace of dust. Her physical body lies horizontally on the bed, but her voice, her mind, is inside the palace. In this feverish dream the beast takes her through the spaces of the palace and tells her about the value of dust and transition. The beast makes her look "Through the glass, darkly" or through the dust, darkly" ( in an imperfect or obscure way ) at a world she thought she new...
"We always used to call it dirt, blind to this whole universe. Only now do we realize how privileged dust mites actually are.
They live in palaces of amazing beauty and it has never once crossed their minds to vanish into a cloud of dust."
Josef Haslinger & Klaus Pichler
Techniques used: Stop-motion, 2d animation and life-action
Duration: 8'57"
Aspect ratio: Scope (2.39:1)
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