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
ReelDance Award for the Best Australian or New Zealand Dance Film or Video, May 2006
Screenings
23 – 25 Feb & 3 – 4 Mar 06 | 2006 International Dance for the Camera Festival, University of Utah, US
23 Mar 06 | Ice Breaker: DANCE MOViES 3, EMPAC, New York, US
7 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Sydney Opera House, AU
11 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, AU
11 & 13 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts,
Brisbane, AU
13 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, AU
13 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Northern Rivers Performing Arts, Lismore, AU
13 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, AU
14 May 06 | Award Finalists, ReelDance 06, Artshouse, Melbourne, AU
21 May 06 | International Dance Shorts 2006, Brighton Festival, UK
26 May 06 | Vdance – International Video Dance Festival, The Tel–Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv IL
& Goethe Institut, Ramallah, PS
1 Jul 06 | Oceania, Cinedans Dance Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
1 & 2 Jul 06 | Skin Shakers, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
9 Jul 06 | Dance for the Camera Film & Video Festival, Duke University East Campus, North Carolina, US
27 Jul 06 | Panorama – Living Culture, Eyebeam, New York, US
15 & 16 Sep 06 | ReelDance 06, Adelaide, AU
23 Sep 06 | ReelDance 06, Christchurch, NZ
30 Sep 06 | KINO-PAR, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, AM
1 & 2 Oct 06 | 10th Ultima Film – Dans for Kamera, Oslo, NO
11 Oct 06 | ReelDance 06, Auckland, NZ
18 & 19 Oct 06 | KINODANCE, Ekaterinburg, RU
22 Oct 06 | KINODANCE, Moscow, RU
5 Nov 06 | ReelDance 06, Artrage Festival, Perth, AU
15 Nov 06 | KINODANCE, St Petersburg, RU
28 Nov 06 | Festival Internacional de VideoDanza, Buenos Aires, AR
3 Dec 06 | Danza InMediata Festival, Milan, IT
30 Dec 06 | Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, US
Produced by Forma and Australian Dance Theatre Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
