Cinemantique Zoom, 2001

...lift buffer
final limit switch
ground floor
counterweight
counterweight guide rail
lift guide rail
first floor
terminal stopping switch cam
travelling cables
lift safety device
second floor
door operator
counterweight
final limit cam
final limit switch
third floor
terminal stopping switch
fourth floor
roller guides
safety rope
compensating cables
fifth floor
hoist ropes
secondary sheave
sixth floor
motor generator
seventh floor
drive sheave
controller
ding
door opens
hello
how are you?
girl
skirt
hips
skin
pore
hair
stratum corneum
stratum lucidum
stratum granular
stratum spinosum
stratum basale
melanocyte
epidermis
dermal papilla
subpapillari network
muscle arrector pili
sebaceous gland
dermis
eccrine sweat gland
duct
ampulla
collagenous fibre
connective tissue
subcutaneous tissue
apocrine sweat gland
adipose tissue
blood vessel
dermis
epidermis
skin surface
withers
sweat
leather
harness
horse
herd meadow
hill
landscape
atmosphere
mist
horizon
city
district
street
pedestrian crossing
building
facade
flat
kitchen
wall
clock
dial
dust
glass numbers
hands
hour wheel (24 teeth)
minute wheel (10 teeth)
gear wheel (30 teeth)
pinion (6 teeth)
driving wheel
mainspring
escape wheel
escape wheel spindle
balance
hairspring
pin
6 o’clock
strikes
one
two
three
four
five
six
frequency
direct sound
reverberant sound
amplitude
wavelenght displacement
pressure
compression
rarefaction
gas
mercury vapour filling
electrode
lead-in-wire
phosphor coating
fluorescent tube
ceiling
lift shaft...

Travel in different spaces through words. These words operate successive zooms, penetrating in different materials, going sometimes to microscopic scale. This list of words depicts an encounter between two characters in a lift.

technique: sound recording
duration: 3 min 45 s loop