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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, time-lapse photography, stop-motion animation, landscape, weather, perception, experimental short film, filmmaker, experimental animator

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**Proximity** a film by Inger Lise Hansen

[Inger Lise Hansen](https://ingerlisehansen.com)

2006, 3 min 53 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2005_06/prox)

![Proximity, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/proximity01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

An upside-down time-lapse camera moves along a beach, inverting the sand and sky as the weather changes. The result is a disorienting and mysterious space where the originally solid ground at the top of the frame appears to be sliding past like a lava-stream.

16mm time-lapse photography.

### one sentence synopsis

An upside-down view creates a mysterious and disorienting space.

### short synopsis

An upside-down time-lapse camera moves along a beach inverting the ground and the sky. The result is a disorienting and mysterious space on the screen.

### long synopsis

An upside-down time-lapse camera is moved frame by frame on a track along a beach inverting the ground and the sky. The camera moves through four shots recorded in different weather conditions. The result is a mysterious and disorienting space in accelerated time, where the originally solid ground at the top of the frame appears to be sliding past like a lava-stream. **Proximity** was shot on Super16mm film, on location in North Jutland, Denmark.

### key credits

**director**
Inger Lise Hansen

### Inger Lise Hansen

#### biography

Inger Lise studied Fine Art at North East London Polytechnic, St. Martin’s College of Art and San Francisco Art Institute. She works with film and video and her experimental animation films have been shown in international film festivals, museums and galleries, winning prizes including Gold Prize for Animation at the Bilbao Festival of Documentary and Short Films. Her film **Adrift** (2004) was awarded Most Technically Innovative Film at the Ann Arbor International Film Festival. Inger works both in London and in Norway.

June 2005

### a film by Inger Lise Hansen

### direction

**director**
Inger Lise Hansen

© Inger Lise Hansen 2006

[![Proximity, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/proximity01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/proximity01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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### technical

#### process summary

16mm time-lapse and stop-motion animation.

### master copy format

**format**
16mm

**colour or black & white**
colour

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Proximity** film, stills and other materials © Inger Lise Hansen 2006