III is the third film in a grant funded film series titled, The Fifth Day of the Fourth Month of the Twentieth Year. The series was completed in Summer of 2020 in collaboaration with Elia Tzoukerman (Film-maker), Georgiana Johnson (Dancer/Coreographer), Marlena Gonzalez (Composer), and Samuel Narvaez (Composer). Filmed on a 16 mm Bolex, the creative process focused on the socially-distant medium of film in order to enable asynchronous collaboration between artists across the physical barriers of quarantine.
The film takes place in an imagined past-future: an abandoned domestic space reanimated by a single woman and her belongings. In order to convey distinct stages of the COVID-19 crisis linked to the unraveling of the protagonist’s internal world.
In stage III of the work, I expand upon the “main theme” of the score, which I composed from major-second-harmonics devised on my harp. These major seconds are sampled throughout films I and II. The main theme is paired with extended techniques performed on my Harp, Fife, Accordion, Metal Cabassa, and Cajon. Each sonic gestural drama aims to heighten the visual qualities of physical and emotional instability, femininty, and decay within the film. The film is set to premier in January of 2021 at the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.
The film takes place in an imagined past-future: an abandoned domestic space reanimated by a single woman and her belongings. In order to convey distinct stages of the COVID-19 crisis linked to the unraveling of the protagonist’s internal world.
In stage III of the work, I expand upon the “main theme” of the score, which I composed from major-second-harmonics devised on my harp. These major seconds are sampled throughout films I and II. The main theme is paired with extended techniques performed on my Harp, Fife, Accordion, Metal Cabassa, and Cajon. Each sonic gestural drama aims to heighten the visual qualities of physical and emotional instability, femininty, and decay within the film. The film is set to premier in January of 2021 at the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.