DESCRIPTION
A dance phrase repeats three times in a skylit room with variations on shot composition, film editing, and frame rate.
This was a study of the moving human body in parallel with the motion and effects a single movie camera could produce. There are no VFX in this piece. Everything is done in camera or by editing. The film became a study of hyper-editing, i.e., splitting up a clip into hundreds of frames and intercutting those frame with other dissected clips: sometimes 2, sometimes 6 layers at time. In doing so, a 1 second clip could be spread out over 4 seconds. What was shot in 24fps became slow motion footage. With these rapid edits, a new image forms in the mind of the viewer which disappears when the video is paused; the illusion is gone: there is no more bird in its cage.
Filmed in New York City, Summer 2015.
AWARDS
2017 - Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival
2016 - Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, CO