Gina Czarnecki - Nascent
29 November 2008 - 25 January 2009
Dance for Camera
South Hill Park
London, UK
Gina Cazrnecki's award-winning film Nascent will be shown in a collection of films by contemporary artists focusing on the body and dance.
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.
All works will be shown in the Atrium Bar/Cafe area each evening during the period, projected onto a wall measuring approximately 4 m x 3 m.
For more information visit:
www.digitalmediacentre.org
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
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