by Terance and Christie
The Space
The Space
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Artist Statement
In brief two, we explored the idea of a fight being a dance: a fight that relies more on a rhythm and an interaction between two actors, rather than a duel that ends in injury. It was less about seeing who the best fighter is and more about how we can explore movement between two people.
From looking at existing media, we can see that fight scenes in action movies are generally cut heavily while Bruce Lee style films are very much single shot. So our vision was to create a hybrid of Bruce Lee and dance style work. In this regard, films like Claire Denis Beau Travail and Spear helped us to get some inspiration.
We originally intended for there to be diegetic fight sounds and non-diegetic music playing over the work. We played with ideas of repetitive, rhythmic music and matching the beat to the actors as they moved around. In real life, there was no music, and so the actors were able to interact with each other in their own rhythm. We edited the clips in a quiet classroom so we had to have the computer on mute and after seeing them this way, we felt that it allowed the viewer to focus specifically on the movements of the figures on screen.This made a non-diegetic sound track irrelevant. A backing track would have been overwhelming and confusing for the viewer, which is an idea we originally played with, but decided to discard later in the creative process.
The room can certainly accommodate a group of people but we would like viewers to visit in small numbers of one or two people so they can feel more intimate with the work. The use of multiple screens around the space was intended to make the viewing experience more immersive.
We intended this experience to be for an audience much like ourselves: university students. It is for a viewer who moves through a space and immediately tries to draw meaning from what they are seeing by analysing patterns, choices of angle and possible narrative choices etc.
We intend for them to notice the rhythm of 1,2 and 3. To look beyond the two figures fighting and notice the way they move in relation to the space and each other. Furthermore we want them to see why we chose to shoot in the late afternoon: to notice the elongated shadows created by the afternoon sun. We intend for the audience to see how even shadows can create a tempo.
We also want to stimulate curiosity in our audience. For this reason, we chose to include an interactive aspect on one of the screens to engage the viewer beyond just looking. A 360 video is a new piece of technology that our audience could engage with. We have one screen displaying a 360 viewpoint positioned between the figures, which can make the actors seem really close or really far away, challenging the eye to understand the environment in new ways.
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