Fugue
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Inspired by musical and psychological definitions, Fugue examines the dark flight from identity and environment, Hand processing and the juxtaposition of positive and negative footage depict the journey of a woman as she shifts between being black or white and widow or bride.
| Director:
Trish Van Huesen (their other films)
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Genre: Art / Artist |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2004 |
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Color Type: B&W |
| Sound Type: Magnetic Stereo |
Length: 00:06:47 |
| Original Language: None |
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Other Info:
This film, as with all of my work, is an exploration of change. It was
a difficult film for me to make. I was living in the United States, and
all of the horror, fear and nationalistic fanaticism after September
11th, began to permeate my consciousness. The heroine of the film, as
she began her descent, started to look as much like the image of a
country as the image of a human being. During the editing process, as
America dropped bombs on Iraq, I could not seem to get her out of
“hell”, and then suddenly, just as a thunder storm strikes and then
passes, the darkness broke and she ascended again.
It was the collaboration with my partner in sound, Eyvind Kang, and his
co creators which actually broke the darkness and facilitated her
ascension. We were all affected by what was happening in America, but
I was creating from the darkness, and they were more able to create
from the light.
Eyvind’s choice of emblem 50 of Michael Maier’s fugal works, as a
starting point for the soundtrack, woke me up to the reality out of
which I had been creating. The result is a black and white film which
examines Darkness, as the partner of Light. |
Music:
atalanta fugiens emblem 50
composed by
Michael Maier, 1617
Eyvind Kang
arrangement, production
Gretchen Yanover
cello
Jessika Kenney
voices
Aiko Shimada
additional voices
mixed by
Mell Dettmer
at
Aleph Studios
Seattle |
Principal Cast:
Cathy deSmet |
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