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Bird's Eye View - scenography
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Created: 11/24/07
Last Edited: 11/24/07
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Bird's Eye View is a multimedia glimpse into an idealist's distopia: trapped in a small room, under surveillance, a tinkerer is left to her own devices. Small things hidden from the eyes of authority become entire worlds through which a story is told - image by image.
This project was a workshop presentation that was mounted for the 2007 SummerWorks Festival in Toronto, Canada, where it won the Summerworks Festival Prize. The collaborators worked closely enough that any one of us could legitimately be called the other's assistant. However, It was conceived and written by puppeteer Faye Dupras, who is also the performer and puppet builder. Direction and dramaturgy by Erika Batdorf, live music composed and performed by Adam Frederick, and costume design by Marija Djordjevic. Set, lights, and photographic direction were my focus.
This piece was a combination of puppetry, projection, and live camera work. We developed a physical vocabulary, a collection of props and images, and based our general narrative upon the story of Oscar Wilde's incarceration (and the tale of the Happy Prince). For the performance we also created a method of coaching the camera work by the second without losing performance energy.
Jude, the prisoner, goes through a day in which she continually retreats into the small world of tiny objects to escape the mundane reality of solitary incarceration. A small camera embedded in her costume gives us her view onto tiny artificial worlds of her own devising. A security camera in the ceiling gives the audience a view from the eyes of authority.
Jude, the prisoner, goes through a day in which she continually retreats into the small world of tiny objects to escape the mundane reality of solitary incarceration. A small camera embedded in her costume gives us her view onto tiny artificial worlds of her own devising. A security camera in the ceiling gives the audience a view from the eyes of authority.
I sometimes think, when posting work on shows that are in process or which will tour and be presented again, that I shouldn't show off everything in an overview. But this piece was too gorgeous to resist.
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