My colleague Heinrich Escano has been playing a bit more with using motion extraction from the simple footage taken from a still video camera (although in this clip there are some still images as well).
In this sample there are three different things to look at:
1) you can see what happens when there is movement in only one part of the body (the rest of the body effectively disappears);
2) motion extraction of a timelapse series of still images – this is the brief moment 19 seconds in
3) a simple moment in the last part when Heinrich increases the size of the image to simulate zooming in on Katye sitting
As I am watching I am increasingly drawn to how the motion extraction broadens my gaze across the entire body. That is, it asks me to see movement as a whole body activity even when there is the smallest quantity of movement happening. At a stretch I’d propose that this mirrors my attention when dancing – the kind of attention that absorbs the body as an entire field of energy.
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