Film still ‘Two Ways’, 2009, 8’

“ In « Two Ways » Groenhart shoots two men climbing the Wasdale Head fells in the northwest of England. The first man follows his path powerfully with agility, the second is in trouble, struggles. In subjective shots the camera records his difficulty, his instability, his incapacity to follow the trail mapped out by the one who outstrips him. Then, inhabited with a quasi-supernatural autonomy, the camera goes back and slides down, brushing the flow of dark and angular stones. Then a static shot on the stones. The aperture of the diaphragm does not move but as the sky clears and the cinema displays a movement by the appearance of a sunbeam on the ground. Here the film catches something that only cinema could capture: an undetected and dazzling change in the light. Because cinema captures change and transformations; because it is in itself transformation and a luminous device of metamorphosis. ”

(Marie Canet)

Year
2009

Duration
8’

Support
s16mm, color

Genre
Fiction, experimental

Production
Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains

Synopsis
The tale of two men struggling to reach the summit of an inhospitable, lifeless mountain.

Credits

Written and directed by	Viola Groenhart
Older man	Rene Wessel
Younger Man	Rasmus Naeye
DOP/Camera operator	Erwan van Buuren
	Louise Botkay-Courcier
AC	Camila S. Freitas
Sound recordist	Damien Tronchot
Set manager	Oh Eun Lee
Equipment	Le Fresnoy
	Eye-Lite Group
	Panavision
	Cees Aloserij
Editor	Viola Groenhart
Post-production	Massimiliano Simbula
Sound montage	Damien Tronchot
Sound mixage	Damien Tronchot
Auditorium	Le Fresnoy

Nominations & awards
Shortlist Chinese International (King Bonn) New Media Shorts Award (CN)