Face to Face (2006)

By Kika Nicolela

SYNOPSIS
Face to Face is a result of a videoinstallation, in which various men and women answer to 5 questions concerning love. These people were left alone with a camera, facing their own image on the video monitor. The questions, written over a paper, approached different aspects of love and provoked the participants to reflect and expose themselves.
Confronted by this provocation, the interviewed people react in a lot of different ways: they pass through states of hesitation, anguish, nostalgia, euphoria, emotion, questioning. And there're many instants of suspension between the answers. The video image is composed by these intimate moments of reflection, distended by the editing. That which is not said seems to be as revealing as what is expressed in their answers.
On the audio track, voices mix and overlap, ideas are repeated and contradicted. But the whispers form only one almost indistinct mantra, echoing thoughts and experiences about love.
The faces images that play in slow motion, added to the profusion of voices that alternate in both audio channels and the subtitles that translate them, defy the spectator: he must create his own narrative, combining his reflection to the material presented to him.

AWARDS
Best Video (official jury) | Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival (France)
Honorary Award (students jury) | Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival (France)

MAIN EXHIBITIONS
Supermarket of Art International Biennial (Warsow, Poland)
Space Invaders (Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada)
Videometry- Video as a mesuring device in contemporary Brazilian art (Gallery des Angels, Spain, Barcelona)
Situ/Ação -- Aspectos do Documentário Contemporâneo (Brazil, Sao Paulo)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• videoart
• videoarte
• experimental
• documentary
• documentário
• videoinstallation
• videoinstalação
• brazil
• love
• face
• amor

[cristiangalarce]

Beautiful. The mixdown between the languages is too much interesting. You really made a great choice using black & white and slow motion. Beautiful work. I've been thinking for a long time to make something similar here in my country (Chile), but i want to make some political questions. Excellent work!

[dilemastudio]

thank you cristian! are you also a director?

[cristiangalarce]

mmm... i don't know.. :S

[dilemastudio]

I've seen that you are a musician, right? I really liked your work.

[omend]

in my opinion,

this documentary very original idea for me!!!

people without say anything, but in the subtitle i can read...

just like mind reading for me!!!

Black& White makes the expression of the people stronger!

great job!

[dilemastudio]

thanks for taking the time to comment!

even though people are silent, the audio mix all their voices, have you heard it? it's in portuguese, but even so I think it's interesting, the sound hypnotizes like a mantra.

[studioescola]

I think love is a lot of voices because is a feeling of the moment, not a fix idea. I strongly recommend another brazilian video of love called "Dois meses" from the director Andre681979