Momentum is a series of four experimental videos that explore the
relationship between abstract sounds and images. The videos compare
what the camera captures with what the human senses allow us
to experience. While the human brain filters information to make
sense of it, the camera records indiscriminately. Viewing a landscape
speeding by, for example, the brain grabs still images which are then
processed and identified, while the camera records a constant flow
of blurred shapes, colours and textures. These videos bypass the
brain's filter, allowing the viewer to experience what the camera sees.
These videos take advantage of the brain's need to identify
stimuli (the 'seeing images in clouds' phenomenon) by carefully
matching abstracted images and sounds in such a way as to
create relationships between them although the sources for each
are unrelated. At the same time, questions are raised about how
our perception of the physical world is limited by our senses.
Despite the constant movement and unclear meaning in these
videos, a meditative experience is created that is serene rather
than disconcerting, focused rather than random, and organized
rather than chaotic.
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Part 1: Quartet (3 min 23 sec)
Urban street lights become dancing spurts of colour choreographed with clicks and bleeps that suggest a musical composition.
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Part 2: Mutation (3 min 25 sec)
Blurred imagery of a passing landscape comes to life with noises
of ominous creatures, both organic and mechanical.
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Part 3: Palette (2 min 37 sec)
Gestures of colour and texture with make references to painters
like Claude Monet, Anselm Kiefer and Mark Rothko.
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Part 4: Breath Cycle (2 min 58 sec)
The ground caught under foot and the heartbeat and breathing
of something unknown but alive. |
