performance cinema -Untitled 2008

Untitled 2008 is a two-screen work, with immersive surround sound which tries to break the screen-lecture relationship of contemporary cinema. The figure in the video walks from space to space, and as she moves, the two screens switch content. The audience follows the movement and watches first one then the other screen. In the audio track, a flute solo and the video soundtrack are placed in opposition, circling the room roaming 360 degrees. Secondary sounds, the flush of the toilet, water running in the bathroom, washing hands are played across the soundspace, left and right. Controlled by the performer/operator and an ambisonics application in max/msp, the soundspace and the trading of videoscreens immerse the audience in an experience, heightened by the mood and tone of the flute and video.

Untitled 2008, 2 screens
8 channel audio
live performance

Watching the audience follow the movement from one screen to the other shows their immersion is complete. As the audience anticipates the action onscreen and orientates themselves towards one screen or the other, passing attenntion back and forth, a tension an communication is formed, viewer is participating in the space, and seemingly intimately involved in the video. At one point when the figure onscreen cuts her arm with the knife, the viewers and visibly cringe and gasp, some look away, intimating that the connection is complete. Although the video is graphic, it is obviously staged, a movie, yet the audience, immersed in the space and the audio, almost believe. The surrounding soundsape and the multiple screens as well as the live mixing and playback of the sounds, create a deeper experience of cinema through the implementations of creative of technology.