In preparation for our pitch at 'house' in Brighton on 9 May, a first exciting day of R & D took place on 25 April 2011 at Queen Mary with XXXX and Helen Mugridge. (Yes, it was a bank holiday; we had to use smiles to get in to the building.) We used a cinefilm of me and my sisters playing in the garden c.1975, and, using istopmotion, made a mix of us performing the babies' moves, and the babies themselves.
Things we liked/questions we asked:-
-how much movement there is in ONE second
-being AWARE of this
-the way frame by frame film mimics the way our brains work with our eyes - we don't see fluidly
-is 25 the most shifts in attention our brain can manage in 1 second?
-Shiva-like multi-fixed images representing time passing
-fun - the look - Michael Clark
-the parent's eye, the magnetism of the camera
more to come...
