At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC I saw an amazing short film: A Morir by Miguel Angel Rios. It was a four minute film featuring a multitude of spinning tops. They were filmed with three different camera angles and presented in a room with three screens: one in front of you and two on either side. The movement and sound of these tops spinning wildly was mesmerizing. The chaos of movement, collision and finally 'death' gave these objects tremendous life and character. At times it seemed the tops were violently angry and at other times gleefully content. The final teetering and falling of the last top seemed to hold tremendous depth of symbolism: a statement of the chaos of our own lives, a recognition of how the laws of this world govern us all.
| February 6, 2006 08:09am | 
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