The Space Within My
Dreams Where I Miss You... - Experimental Short
Film
(2:18 min., UK, 2013)
Initially I shot this short
film for a "Space Exercise" as part of my "Experimental Film"
module at my film school. There were no restrictions or limits
which gave us creative freedom.
The film represents an
experimental approach to explore the main three emotions within my
dreams:
1. Nostalgia
2. Despair
3. Loneliness
Suffering Numbers - Experimental Film / Installation - July 2013
"Suffering
Numbers" is a project which is highly infulenced by
the poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H Auden and by the
two paintings referenced in the poem: "The Fall of Icarus"
and "The Massacre of the Innocent" by Pieter
Bruegel.
The film focuses on the
condition of the human suffering within the cosmos' indifference:
The macrocosmos couldn't care less about the microcosmos! Nature's
indifference towards human suffering.
The film was exhibited on the 16th July at the Met film School in London and was shot entirely in Luxembourg. The installation consists of the main film which is projected onto a big screen and the audience is invited to watch the film while enjoying a calming and peaceful atmosphere. However, at specific moments in the film, number are going to appear. Their meaning remains hidden until the end of the film when the audience is invited to walk around the small screens where the truth behind the numbers is going to be revealed.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Poem by W.H. Auden
About suffering they were
never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they
understood
Its human position; how it takes
place
While someone else is eating or
opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are
reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there
always must be
Children who did not specially
want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the
wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom
must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy
spot
Where the dogs go on with their
doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on
a tree.
In Brueghel's Icarus, for
instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the
disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the
forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an
important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs
disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive
delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling
out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and
sailed calmly on.