Gina Czarnecki - Nascent
Nascent is a visual and visceral journey through and about being. A film and installation, the piece's hybrid form exists between visual art, experimental media, technology and dance.
In Nascent, raw footage of improvised and choreographed performance by Australian Dance Theatre dancers is confronted with compositional techniques applied in the post-production stage. Images form a complex and dense rhythmic structure, stretching, smearing and distorting ‘real’ time. The dancers' gestures and bodies, poised and isolated, gradually become intertwined, indistinguishable and frenetic – turbulent, mutated fragments that form and reform. A few frames of internal body image blast in as subliminal interventions or as momentary abstractions, leaving fleeting impressions of parallel structures – organisms, mutant animals, ghosts, mechanical insertions. The image processing creates new traces of movement that appear as blips in transmission or digital ‘vibrations’ where the body and its image tune-in, momentarily, then become ‘unplugged’ leaving behind traces of skin-print as after-images. Ultimately the image remains recognisably human, but only just.
The score is specially commissioned music from Fennesz, whose own computer manipulation and processing of 'analogue' source sound echoes Czarnecki's approach to the treatment of image, and in turn influenced the final edit of the piece.
Awards
Special mention at Il Coreografo Elettronico, Naples, May 2005
Delegates’ Award at IMZ Dance Screen, June 2005
Best Dance Film Award, Australian Dance Awards, November 2005
Screenings
19 Feb 05 | Adelaide Film Festival [world premiere], AU
17 Jun 05 | IMZ Dance Screen | Brighton, UK
4 & 9 Sep 05 | d.a.m.p.f '05 International Dance and Performance Art | Köln / Kalk, DE
15 Sep 05 | VideoDance2005, 6th International Festival on Movement and the Moving Image | Athens, GR
1 – 9 Oct 05 | Tensdansa '05 | Terrassa, ES
9 Oct 05 | SHOOT Dance for Screen | Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
21 Oct 05 | Edit 2005, 1st International Dance Film Festival | Budapest, HU
5 Nov 05 | Moving Pictures Festival | Toronto, CA
3 Dec 05 | Dance Film Day | English Heritage Lecture Theatre, London, UK
4 – 7, 13 – 14 Jan 06 | Dance on Camera Festival 2006 | Walter Reade Theater, New York, US
Produced by Forma and Australian Dance Theatre
Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
