Running time: 07:54 Format: miniDV choreographed/performed by Jana Jevtovic directed, recorded, edited by Boldi Csernak "Dawn" is the first piece in a split-screen series, which explore the relationship between physicality, psyche and environment/landscape. It was born of a collaboration between a filmmaker and a dancer/choreographer, and primarily motivated by the characteristics of the location itself. We were dealing with an open rural landscape which is path-like: long, narrow and somewhat isloated. With "Dawn" we developed a structure which involved two cameras, one fixed (left screen) and one hand-held (right screen), which in turn allowed us to experiment with a double distance between the camera and the subject. The sensitivity and the mobility of this way of recording allowed for a real-time communication between the performer and the cameraman, who are both continually visible on the left screen. The use of two cameras also resulted in a playing with multiple perspective and point of view. "Dawn" is the introduction to this system. It takes place in a lively automn time, where birds can be heard, people make appearances and the sunrise lighting is continually changing. These factors contribute a certain level of intervention and uncontrollable accident to the event. The movement was not based on a script. Rather, it grew through a process of improvisation which built on to the structure. The performer was strongly affected by the space and its characteristics, and the physicality in the film was a result of this meeting.