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08.04.03 Life is like water, life as a liquid sequence of images.
'Life is like water' is a new work by Peter Horvath (who's also the author of 'Either Side of an Empty Room') which explores the possibilities of non-linear sequences experienced through a web interface. It's a balanced succession of slow sequences, blurred, with soft borders, interrupted by short loops as fast as the turn of a page, a windowed integrated composition which doesn't try to hide its spiritual urban poetry, with a fitting soundtrack which increases the feeling of solitude and melancholy. It's a narration made of quick impressions, which hint at a media saturation we're already accustomed to. The only glitch is the technical mistake which blocks the liquid flow of sensations with a server error. This work also pays a not immediately perceptible homage to the tragedy of September 11, since many of the filmed sequences were shot during Spring 2001, two blocks away from the World Trading Center, therefore some of the people in the images might be among those who perished that day.