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
22 Feb – 14 Mar 07 | Movement film screenings programme, SE
1 – 4 Mar 07 | VideoDansa 2007, Barcelona, ES
15 Mar 07 | Montage video dance festival, Johannesburg, SA
15 – 18 Mar 07 | Danza in Fiera, Florence, IT
22 – 30 Mar 07 | Tiburon International Film Festival, US
21 Apr 07 | International Dance Film Days, Szekesfehervar, HU
4 – 5 May 07 | Dance on Screen, Radialsystem, Berlin, DE
30 May 07 | Video–Dance Programme, Art–Athina, Athens , GR
28 Jun 07 | Video–Dance Programme, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, ES
14 Aug – 2 Sep 07 | International Videodance, Rio de Janeiro, BR
3 Nov 07 | Dance:Film 07, Edinburgh, UK
Produced by Forma and Australian Dance Theatre Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
