Alps Atmosphere By Marco Menestrina On ExposureRoom

¿Marco Araña? Nah... Marco Ícaro Menestrina

I'd like to go into a more profound and metaphysical perspective on your piece; but the limits of distance do not allow me to do it, as well as this impersonal and overly exposed medium of communication. I'll say I enjoyed what you did. I enjoy it because it holds new perspectives -time within time(be it slow time inside of fast time or the other way around). This new perspectives are not new, of course; yet they become very clear on the experience of the "unnatural" movement of clouds, the "unnatural" movement of light -which could be natural if we were in other states of mind-. Yet these technological devices allow us to explore them. I'm fascinated by the idea. I feel like I've just discovered the microscope. Stupid, yes, I know. Yet, your piece does cause something in me and there's no reason for me to keep it to myself. Only those things that are incommunicable, I repeat, by this medium.

There are, of course, technical issues, but to find them and talk about them seems irrelevant. You edited the piece, I'm sure you know those issues better than I do. To even start talking about them would be annoying not only to you, but to myself. There are sometimes inevitable problems, I'd say try to foresee them and find a fix. Because I feel that the idea is there: but I assume there's an aspiration for technical perfection(nonexistent thing, yet the path towards it is there and some go far, some just look at the gate where it begins).

The shot that begins in second 23 has tremendous power. If those mountains were only higher and you would continue to go down, that would be astonishing. That 16mm wide-angle has potential in that kind of environment and with movement. I don't know how a horizontal movement would look like, surely not as good, it wouldn't show the mountains as well. I wish you would have done more shots of the same thing, I don't know if you did -and kept the roof out of the frame, that would have been perfect. "Next time make it steady! I demand satisfaction!" -yells Troy out loud, holding his tight fist high on the air. But I understand perfectly what it is to be doing that with the whole camera and the letus and all. Maybe you could have tried to capture it in slow motion and then change the speed in post -but I feel that you might have done that or that you would not do that at all-.

01:57 - I love the composition and the movement. Every picture in that shot is amazing in my opinion. "Don't walk away." But you already have walked away, and Trento is where Trento is. In silence, they see you in Trento walking away far in the distance. You've become a blur to them, and after that: a ghost, even a symbol. But you don't walk away from this earth, my friend. Sky is still the limit, fly free, but don't melt your wings. And if you do fall on the ocean, make sure you have your skies on. :)

Take care.
Maxicazzo.

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