Chiaroscuro

'The close-up can show us a quality in a gesture of the hand we never noticed before...a quality which is often more expressive than any play of the features.'
Bela Balázs



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Shooting Footnotes:
The idea of filming a hand from above was influenced by the work of Bill Viola as well as writing by Lev Manovich on the subject of Databases. The shoot has produced a particlurly good crop of stills, and some very interesting footage. At this stage, I'm still not sure how I'm going to develop the piece, but while filming, we were struck by how effective the play of light and shadow appeared on film. This provided the working title of the piece, which neither of us is sure how to pronounce. Dancers are Dominique Bulgin and Isobel Cohen