Tonight I watched a short film by Igor Sirjanov, a young Russian filmmaker who now lives in Germany. His film, titled Tick Tock Tur, follows a young man as he goes crazy in his own apartment.
The film starts in black and white, with the camera slowly turning the corners of the apartment. It settles on a young man, standing in a full white body suit. It is unclear why he is wearing the suit, yet this foreshadows that he is experiencing some sort of internal turmoil, as it's not exactly normal to be standing in one's apartment in a white jumpsuit. He seems paranoid but still composed.
The man is then standing in the living room of his apartment and pulls a large painting out of a box, looking pleased. The camera work here is very successful, focusing in on closeups of the face and then whatever the eye is looking at. The man pounds a nail into the wall and hangs the painting, but then notices a part of it which he finds to be extremely unsettling. He starts scrubbing, painting over, changing the painting, obsessing over it.
A second version of the man appears, and as the first version is going crazy, the second version is there in a suit and a tie, looking professional and interrupting the first man as he is counting numbers. It is the alter ego of one's self driving him crazy.
When the first version of the man realizes that he cannot make the painting the way that he wants to, he becomes very frustrated and paints the entire canvas white. He then throws the paint at the canvas and then frantically paints everything in the apartment white.
Throughout the film, it switches to color and then back to black and white. This is the most successful toward the end when the color fades into black and white, really emphasizing the black of the tie (solid and professional).
The soundtrack really suits the film, as it is sparse and then picks up as the action builds. The editing was very successful, building the necessary suspense to make the viewer feel the effects of the man losing his mind.
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