SYNOPSIS
In the city, we are constantly in motion, yet we feel nothing but speed. An amusement park, however, offers a different experience. It turns inside out and outside in, disrupting our sense of direction and blurring spatial boundaries. The film observes that this is not mere chaos but occurs within a cyclical structure of a definite rhythm—an uncontrollable rhythm that captivates us. Here, time and space flow not in straight lines but along curves, opening or closing in an instant, tilting precisely left or right.
REVIEW
A 360-degree camera is an optical device for capturing immersive, spherical images. Unlike lenses and screens based on human geometry, it offers a field of vision closer to that of another species—a grazing animal scanning the plains, or an insect with compound eyes.
Using this technology, Revolution or Rollercoaster becomes a form of sensory ethnography, inviting us to inhabit a perception beyond the limits of the human gaze. Within the amusement spaces where the film unfolds, the camera’s conventional use is subverted, heightening a world already defined by dizzying curves, vertical shifts, rotations, and changes in speed. The images are as exhilarating as they are disorienting, offering more than mere visual novelty. They lead the viewer toward a critical reflection on the act of perception itself, transforming what might seem like a playful optical experiment into a meditation on how we sense—and make sense of—the world.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
With a 360-degree camera that erases any fixed vanishing point, space itself becomes elastic. The perspective untethers from a linear path, swimming between a viewpoint and its opposite, probing the subtle distortions that emerge between the camera’s two eyes. As surfaces tilt, warp, and shift with every movement, the film turns its gaze toward the environment that powers the life of the amusement park.
CONTACT
HA Minseok
joyboyfun@naver.com
