Some more video but this time two separate video streams (one of Katye Coe, one of me (Simon Ellis)) placed side by side on the canvas. Two notes: i) I made no effort to match them or shift them in time; ii) the video is not slowed down at all.
Tag: Heinrich Escano
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shimmer again (video)
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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shimmer
I’ve mentioned before in data data data and in low fidelity documentation just how complex the ways in which some of the practical work in the studio might be documented and shared.
A while back I happened across a simple post-production technique called motion extraction by the YouTuber Posy. It made me think that it might be a way to reach towards just how much movement is going on when it seems like very little is happening.
My colleague Heinrich Escano is a video artist and was keen to have a go. Here’s a brief sample of Katye Coe practising our version of authentic movement in the studio:
What I find most interesting is how the body seems to start to shimmer when there is next to no movement happening. I find my attention drawn in very closely to those actions and stillnesses. It’s not precisely what I am imagining but it’s a good first test or prototype.