anatomía de un proceso

Short Description

Visual metaphors about space and emotions portray the quality of melancholy in the character of social groups. Inner feelings through round trips reveal group catharsis, catalyzed by the inadequacy of communicative processes between contemporary individuals.

Director’s Notes

This work arises from the need to explore, through movement and stillness, the "genre of disagreement" within a social organism. In this research, the character of melancholy as a collective feeling, served as a hub to refer to individuals immersed in the melodrama of social, cultural and media identity.

By inviting an interdisciplinary group of artists to realize a leisurely observation of the social complex, I wanted us to find the subtleties that define and determine the interior life of individuals at the time of communication. I wanted to speak of a crisis in the ways we make connections and, therefore, we engaged communicative processes between people, groups, and even the ampler scope of society as a whole. Melancholy was the silent redoubt, allowing us to perceive the madness through which each individual achieves survival.

As a state of constant meditation, we would enter into our own catharsis of creation, coming from opposite sides and going to the edge of schemes, ideas, and preconceptions of the ambiguous mood that arises from collective consciousness.

Working method

1) A collective creation allowing for a variety of stages during the process, strictly adhering to the understanding of the search for a collective result itself, that is to say, the multidiscipline. Performers, photographers, filmmakers, set designers and musicians together allowed for a process rich in experience, due to the freedom in movement explorations and the openness in the stipulated dynamics for the investigation, including on the approach of the camera to the dance/movement, and even to the experience itself.

2) Silence: the use of silence in the process was the motor to achieve understanding and to cause the chosen disposition to travel in the same collective frequency over a certain period.

3) Consensus: finding the subtleties that take place inside the group organism, and in the constant exercise of observing the ways of being in collectivity, was how we could conceive the catharsis of this state of mind in the individuals of our time, of our surroundings.

4) Environment as a cause, and the duality of black and white as a relational element: asking everyone to turn inward, without running, without desiring, but being with a dynamical experience that breathes, and acting collectively to pursue an agreement; the agreement in the honesty of interpretation, as well as of the ways to exert a posture at the time to capture on camera the actions that comes from the outside and resurges in the interior.

Now, with distance, when I review the work through memory, I believe that what we embodied in the rehearsal area, on the film set, in the scenery workshop, on location, and in the audio and video studios, came from the harmonic madness of the environment, a madness of individuals, something then that has to do directly with us because that's where it arises, soon to be image, soon to be sound, and silence again.