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
5 – 26 Jan 08 | Dance Screen Programme, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, AU
19 Jan 08 | Maxxivisioni | MAXXI_National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, IT
2 Feb – 16 Mar 08 | Xtend: Dance for Camera | Digital Media Centre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK
16 Feb 08 | 4th International Dance Film Festival, Yokohama, JP
11 Oct 08 | Notte Digitale, Romaeuropa Festival, Rome, IT
Produced by Forma and Australian Dance Theatre Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
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