St. Moritz – Como in 16 mm film
The transition between realism and reality in Alex Lambrechts new film is as fluid as the nature of the culture between Lake Como and St. Moritz.
There are few places in the world as united on the inside by their outward contrasts as the most cosmopolitan mountain village in the world and Lake Como, the coast at the end of the Alps. Nowhere does the Mediterranean meet the Alpine to make such an impression. Nowhere is a coastal resort found so far into the mountains. Glaciers and ice that lie further down under the sinful sun of the same south. You drive over a pass and you are in the same country of different nations.
The boundaries are blurred just as they are in a film recently made by fashion photographer Alex Lambrechts. Using a 1950s Bolex (what else would it be?) and only one roll of film, 30 metres long and 16mm wide, using reduced frame rate that seems to fast-forward time by slowing down its perception. Timelessness emerges, something endless, three minutes long.