douple

Douple is, primarily, an exercise in experimenting with image and sound. Starting from a scene from a movie -- "This Sporting Life" (1963) -- and then exploring and work on the distortion of that same scene, emptying it of its original meaning and condense the two planes of a dialogue for a single plane, where the two parties are sharing the same plane.
Instead of looking alternately at each of the actors this merging results in a kind of silent shared monologue where the two constitute a single unit, almost a visual being able to condense the emotions and feelings of two characters at a time of climax of the film itself.
In Douple, sound aims to be the background for reflection on the emotion that is actually happening in the original scene, both by the presence of the voice of Maria Callas (in Puccini's Tosca with "Basta, Roberti") and the voice of Michael Sugrue discussing the work of Plato and how those works often expose the fundamental issues and problems of human existence.
Douple = Couple and Duo - Dialogue - Conflict = Object.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• video art
• video
• opera
• dialogue
• scene
• movies
• mixed media

[gongboy83]

Like the use of Michael Sugrue. Do you have any other stuff featuring him?