Description:
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.
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