New project coming soon: Side A and Side B
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I have been busy shooting for the last months, and I mean really busy. I have been shooting so feverishly I got a bit lost in the flood of images. Only when I started putting the new site together, I realised it is about time to step back and try to make sense of it all.
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I noticed in the last months, my work tends to bring me to two opposite ends of the spectrum – I bounce back and forth between a fast paced crowd scenes, with people everywhere, shooting like mad and then are drawn to empty streets and quiet details, a sort of found still lifes, to simplify the matter a bit. Those two streams run together, in parallel. Here is where I came up with a metaphor of an music album, side A and side B.
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The same approach, but different feeling. One can’t function without the other. Props and characters, each influencing one another and complementing each other to create something bigger.
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It’s not only because of the A to B relation that I reference music. In the last months I am seeing clearer what interests me most, and it is this approach free from narrative, time based, fluent and organic development, not far away from improvised music with no words, not telling a story but putting images into your head.
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I am considering giving the two parts of the project subtitles as well. “Props” and “Characters”, again, come to mind. But wait, isn’t that referencing theatre, where the story is all that matters ? Yes and no. It’s a play with no beginning, middle or end. A living, breathing, half mad story, changing before your eyes. Recently I somewhere read a quote from Fellini (sorry, quoting from memory here) : “to give a conclusion to a film is immoral”. He then goes to explain that stories in life are cut up, spring up and end up suddenly, and he feels a need to respect that. Makes sense to me.
I’ve never edited my work in this way, with two corresponding blocks, so I hope the connection between them will not be lost. The images you see in this post are examples from both of the parts, so it’s a gentle thread connecting them all, but I hope it is visible.
