Outside the Studio

Projection

Outside of Studio

I'm beginning to take my work outside of the studio. The first step that I have decided to take is to photocopy stills from my first film and display them in the area that I live in. I think the pictures are reminiscent of mugshots, especially with the grainy texture of the photocopy. I also think that displaying these images to passers-by makes the subject more vulnerable. I'd like to display a video in the same way.

Stills

In taking stills of the film, I have isolated a part of the confession and allowed the person to be scrutinised further because this is now a frozen image. I think it enforces the fact that the moment can't be undone or changed, so in turn makes up a part of their identity.

Art + Audience

I'm trying to develop my previous work, but in a more appropriate medium.

I'm taking the idea from previous work forward, not the pratice. I was almost put on a jury for a case and sat in the court room while matters were being dicussed. I started to think about the defendants being put on the spot in front of strangers and having to recount past events, events that perhaps they would rather not share. With this in mind, I asked a handful of people (including myself) to sit in front of a camera and talk about the last time they felt guilty. Film gives me the chance to record everything in total, and having the subject look directly into the camera breaks down the barrier between them and audience. This is a rough edit of the films so far...

In asking people to remember a certain point in their life and talk about it puts them on the spot in a similar way to the defendant of the case. I've decided at this point to take away the sound because I want to leave the interpretation up to the audience. To decide themselves whether the people in the film are guilty, or if they are at all. I want the audience to become the jury.