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Reflections
Reflections is an audio visual installation in collaboration with British Red Cross, Counterpoint Arts, and the Write To Life group, supported by Freedom From Torture.
6 portraits, 6 inner voices. Presented across three screens, and multiple headsets, the audience must find each fellow human's story from the throng of voices. Beyond each persons image, personal stories are volunteered: journeys to escape danger, to find a home, to survive and to live. Stories that are otherwise often hidden from public view. To some of the participants, even now, the act of telling the truth of their own life creates risk and their identities still have to be protected.
The video asks the audience to hold eye contact with people who share stories of not being seen.
The sound design of the project pulls out individuals from the waterfall of voices and connects the audience to their inner thoughts. Audio recorded separately from the video creates a focus between the project participant on screen and the audience member. Referencing video portraiture including Screen Tests (1964-66) and At The Waterfall (2003), Reflections reappraises the purpose of portraiture to create dialogue with people and identities that are not globally recognised or heard, providing space for free expression.
The full 30 minute installation was open to audience members in the Playhouse Theatre at the West End Production of The Jungle - written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Good Chance Theatre.
The installation played to over 5000 people, featured during Refugee Week 2018, and garnered praise from its audience, from Sonia Friedman Productions, Good Chance Theatre, and luminaries such as Benedict Cumberbatch.
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STONE
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, a man is stranded alone, struggling to cope with the loss of his wife. He begins to fall apart mentally and his subconscious takes over as the grief overwhelms him. He seeks a way, any way, of making the pain cease.
Lew Smart, Charlene Sales, Nicholas Carroll
Music by David Denyer
Photography by Chester Blaise Mounsher
Written and Directed by James Harris
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CORPOREAL
Corporeal explores the future of cinema: interactivity.
A short scene involving two characters was shot in one shot in one location.
A live event, with live audience was arranged at the shooting location, and the film was projected where it had been shot.
A short scene involving two characters was shot in one shot in one location.
A live event, with live audience was arranged at the shooting location, and the film was projected where it had been shot.
Having seen the initial film, the audience were then able to direct the cast to perform the scene again in any way they chose. This was carried out in front of the original projection. The audience were able to film the results and post them publicly online alongside the original film.
A project for Cornwall Film Festival 2010.
Created by James Harris, Ruby Rice, Aimee Trimmer
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UPCOMING PROJECTS
EXERCISES IN SOUND AND LISTENING (In development)
One short story told a hundred times through different sound experiences
An ordinary street scene presented through the prism of subconscious audio, made conscious by the project, can alter the narrative significantly. Politics, social issues, reality and the nature of communication all come into question.
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Low low flights to the Costa Del... (in Production)
A long form video looking at the desire and longing for places and our perspectives of destination.
A long form video looking at the desire and longing for places and our perspectives of destination.
2 channel, 8 hour video installation of a day in the highlands and a day in the city.
