Boy Meets Girl (in 23 Stills)

'The screen is a narrative form.'
Bob Lockyer




Shooting Footnotes:
Although not generally drawn towards narrative, I have taken up the challenge of creating a piece which uses the favourite plot-device of Hollywood films, has an explicitly heterosexual agenda, a narrative arc AND a happy ending - all achieved in 30 seconds. (I'm currently planning a sequel, drawing on the work of Laura Mulvey - Girl Meets Boy.) I've also been using stills in a variety of ways as part of different pieces, and I wanted to take that strategy to its extreme and create a piece made entirely of stills. Performers are Franck Baranek and Chirstinn Whyte.

The movement material was filmed in November '04, in the living room of my flat in Cambridge. (This was also the location for filming Gemini in 2002.) Franck has been a friend and colleague since we were both participants on the Limón Company Intensive at SUNY Purchase in 1991. As he is currently based in Brussels, I wanted to take advantage of his brief time in Britain last year to fit in some fiming, and one day I hope to be able to do more work together in a larger space.