Private Project

BINAURAL GLASS

Binaural Glass takes us on a mesmerising, transcendent trip: mysterious and otherworldly. These viscous substances set in strange yet familiar scapes, in resonance with the granular stretched vocals, strings and binaural beating.

  • Shelley Hopkins
    Director
  • Carly Paradis
    Producer
  • Lily Markiewicz
    Editors
  • Shelley Hopkins
    Editors
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short film
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 29, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
    York
    United Kingdom
    November 1, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
    Oklahoma
    United States
    Official Selection
  • Ribalta Experimental Film Festival

    Official Selection
  • Berlin International Art Film Festival

    Official Selection
  • APEX Film Awards

    Finalist
  • Beyond the Curve International Film Festival

    Finalist
  • Swedish International Film Festival

    Finalist
  • The British Short Film Awards

    Finalist
  • FilmArte Festival

    Semi-Finalist
  • Vancouver Women Film Festival

    Semi-Finalist
  • MAGMA

    Nominee
  • FilmHaus

    Nominee
  • Munich Music Video Awards

    Honorable Mention
Director Biography - Shelley Hopkins

London based indie filmmaker, director and video editor, Shelley Hopkins, specialises in experimental films and music videos. Her work is do with setting up (mis-en-scéne) of an ambiguous yet unique space caused by the use of macro-lens technology to interrogate real substance. The resulting abstractions, sometimes slow moving and entropic, constantly shift under the influence of their own sublimations and reveal the movement of time and matter and thus also an uncanny sense of the prehistoric. Shelley's interest in contemporary music also comes to play a role here, as the videos have explored "sound substance' not only as ambient recording, but also to augmenting pieces of music.

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Director Statement

"Binaural Glass was made in collaboration with composer Carly Paradis after we met on a transcendental meditation retreat on creativity. Canadian born Carly Paradis is RTS winning and BAFTA nominated for Line of Duty for BBC. Binaural Glass is from her recent solo album, Nothing is Something. This is my first collaboration and directorial debut. My love of macro moving images all started with a pot of marmite, which opened up a new way of seeing and filming substances which speak of scapes and have their own filmic language, inviting the viewer to engage on a more instinctive level. Are these mesmerising substances taking us on a visual journey? Does the sound of vibration affect this matter? Are they getting excited, resonating with spatial sound?"