Relentless

A film on paper and in 3D, and guess what - it’s not Avatar.

How often is it that we see a film turn into a book? It only really appears to work the other way around.

But architect Johan Hybschmann has done his best to reverse this misconception. He drew inspiration the film “The Russian Ark” - a single-camera 90-minute tour of the majestic St. Petersburg Winter Palace in glorious slow motion.

Committing this lengthy, ponderous cinematic affair on paper sounds flatter than an A4, and would demand the literary attention to detail of Nabokov to be put to words. Thankfully, we are spared all of this, because of the creator’s architectural flair. Mr. Hybschmann has rendered the key scenes as lazer cut-outs in the pages of the book. The result is an oddly cinematic take on the original in spectacular detail, a level of simple ingenuity no 3D film technology can achieve.