“Camera Dance” is an exploration of camera movement to create an immersive and subjective viewing experience. This piece was interchangeably titled “Indexicality of Movement”. Influenced by Vertov (“the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space”) and Maya Deren (“conferring the movement of the camera upon the figures in the scene”) this piece turns movement into a participatory journey.
Filmed during the pre-production process of the short film One (2018), “Camera Dance” was part of a process of searching for a filming approach to visually capture the theme of the film, where time expands and chaos fills the frame. In the end, a similar approach was used in the climax of the dance sequence in One.
The sound for this exercise was composed and mixed at a later date. Manipulating the sounds of a spinning bicycle wheel, hangar doors blowing in the wind, a boat horn, and a simple musical phrase played on the synthesizer, an accompaniment was created.
Deren, Maya. “Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality,” in The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, ed. P. Adams Sitney (New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1978), pp. 60-73
Vertov, Dziga. “Kinoks a Revolution,” in Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov. 1984. pp 14-21