A hyper-kinetic, single pointed meditation flashes around New York City in a weightless slide over the Brooklyn Bridge and around the World Trade Center.

HYPNOSTASIS

Hyper-kinetic images match with a vintage hypnotist to create a ride that exceeds any amusement park attraction in this experimental animated short.

A hand held camera, some very patient subjects and one frame per step sends the world spinning in this award winning film.

FILM CREDITS
Writer/Director – Chris Clements

Featuring:
Maria Bowen
Kathy Hogan
Jennifer Clements
Stacy Weinstein
Lorraine Ramash
Josette Smith
Pat Neo

Edited by Enrico Madonna and Christopher Clements
Music by Jerry Delgado, Mac N. Tosh, Richard Lingg
Vintage wire recording of unknown hypnotist provided by Robert Goldman
Special thanks Julie Goldman, David Dee
Festival History (under the title: The Magical, Mystical, Bifocal Trilogy)

SCREENINGS
Mondial de la Video-Belgium (Honorable Citation)
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Arts Festival
Culture Under Fire Film Festival
Williamsburg Film Festival
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
MicroCineFest
Chicago Alt. Film Festival

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

“Making Hypnostasis was great fun for me, terrible drudgery for my subjects. The people in Hypnostasis often stood in the middle of an empty air field for hours while I trained my hand-held animation camera on them, placing my subject in a precise spot that I’d plotted within my camera’s reflex viewing system and then click, I’d release a frame and say ‘Ok’ and my subject would take one measured step forward as would I and I’d train my hand-held animation camera on them, placing my subject in a precise spot that I’d plotted within my camera’s reflex viewing system and click, I’d release a frame and say ‘Ok’ and my subject would take one measured step forward as would I and I’d train my hand-held animation camera on them and you can see how monotonous this might be repeated hundreds of times.

In the snow, in the heat of summer, with only my constant, unreliable reassurances for my subjects to go on as to how much longer: ‘Nearly done… very nearly done… just a few more yards, no more than another half a football field.’ So, of the two of us, I definitely had the better time.”