Pods of space float loose, and characters assume frozen poses as if they had leaped into the artist's mind in a flash of recollection.
Busner films the patients and discovers that if he slows down or speeds up the projector, he can find meaning in their lightning-swift twitches or seemingly frozen poses.
The starting point is "Madonna and Child Enthroned" by Margaritone d'Arezzo in Gallery 1. Dated around 1270, it encapsulates the gold ground, frozen poses and flattened space of Byzantine art.
He films that lofty talk in colorful, shadowy, and high-contrast images; the actors' frozen poses and lilting line readings are set off by copious use of great modern music — including compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina and Igor Stravinsky — that comes off as one of the most strikingly apt scores I've ever heard.
Brian Hurley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md., said flash freezes pose an especially high danger of "black ice" conditions on roads and sidewalks.
They twirl, pose, speak rapidly as the music pulses, then freeze, pose and speak more slowly as the pulse slows.
The composition is not narrative but rather forms the context of a sole figure, frozen in a pose of profound preoccupation.
Yesterday in Paris, frozen, not posed.
Using existing, frozen specimens poses thorny challenges in locating, confirming consent, allocating, and transporting specimens to a range of labs for a multiplicity of assays.
"Each family will freeze in a pose," she said.
I looked like a gawky, spotty adolescent, frozen in a gormless pose.
