Gina Czarnecki - Nascent
Combining visual art, experimental media and dance, Nascent is a visual and visceral journey through and about being. Raw footage of improvised and choreographed performance by Australian Dance Theatre dancers is confronted with compositional techniques applied in the post-production stage. Dancers’ gestures and bodies, poised and isolated, gradually become intertwined, massed forms that pause and unfold across the screen. Traces of movement 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.
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.
Screenings
29 Nov 08 - 25 Jan 09 | Dance for Camera, South Hill Park, London, UK
29 Jan 09 | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK
19-21 Feb 09 | Temps d'Images Festival, Usine C, Montreal, CA
16 April 09 | Dance on Camera Festival 2009, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, US
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
Produced by Forma and Australian Dance Theatre Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
