EXIT review - 1

fORUM fILEM KUALA LUMPUR
The Film Forum of Kuala Lumpur

Patrick Lim: EXIT
The Second Camera As Magnifier Of Truth

Interpretation by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai

At the age of 22, Patrick Lim grabs very early the subject of alienation. Quite independently creative with his materials, Patrick Lim takes on a conceptual fling at expressing the motivated style of space and time and tries to recreate them in terms of the mind. It seems that the little room in EXIT has extended physical space in four-folds: the physical space of a room as a room for interrogation, the physio-mental space of the lady in the room, the physio-mental space of the interrogator, and the space of the lady with the camera and her soundman. Space and time expanded because the lady tends to recreate the memories of the murder in lengthy dialogues and provide proliferation of words on visuals. Space seems to expand within the echoes of the mind without physical extensions.

This paper was presented at the Film Forum of Kuala Lumpur jointly sponsored by the Forum Film of Kuala Lumpur and Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional, at FINAS on the 30 January 2002.The camera seems to absorb physical space on an extended mental display of words and meanings of words. It is a cross-sectional pattern of space-time illusions that accumulate the cross-passing of cue-volleys in extendable space-time relationships. No abstract patterns were sought, and very little movements were given to both the interrogator and the interrogated, but the rhythm and tempo of relationships between the two has magnified each other’s emotional pixilation on recorded pictures in the camera and sound in the nagra. The interrogator and the interrogated are grabbing at each others mind.

to be continued...