tx-transform

synopsis

Tx-transform is an experimental film technique that interchanges the axis of time and one spatial dimension. All micro-agencies intersect in one dizzying moment; or are there two moments and are they connected by the same place? This dark cinematic tale is based on a colourful illustration of the theory of relativity formulated by mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell.

“tx-transform is a film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and one of the space axes (x or y) with one another. Normally, each individual frame of a film depicts the entire space, but only a moment in time (1/24 second). With tx-transformed films, it is just the opposite: each frame shows the entire time, but only a tiny portion of space – if one cuts alongside the horizontal space axis, the left portion of the picture turns into the “the before”, the right one into “the after”. This produces phenomena such as those described by Einstein in his theory of relativity.”

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biography

Martin Reinhart (1967) is an Austrian art historian, curator, director and innovator of film technology. He developed the tx-transform technique, which he used to create experimental videos and installations in collaboration with Virgil Widrich. He holds the Chair of Art & Science at Die Angewandte in Vienna.

Virgil Widrich (1967) is an award-winning Austrian screenwriter, multimedia artist and teacher at the Art & Science Department of Die Angewandte in Vienna. He is the author of the successful films Copy Shop (2001) and Fast Film (2003). Twenty years after the release of tx-transform, Reinhart and Widrich created its sequel, tx-reverse (2018), shown at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2020.

more about film

director:	Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
producer:	Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich