MIRADOR
live video installation
watch a small extract
LIVE video-performance installation, 2 channels
a project by Paula Onet
part of the performance "Siente-te como en casa"
Project developed for the class "Contemporary Scene Practice"
Coordinated by prof. Martina Botella Mestres
production UPV - Facultad de Bellas Artes Valencia and UNARTE Bucharest - Master of Photography and Dynamic Image
supported by I.F. Radu Onet
© 2015, Valencia, Spain
SYNOPSIS
The project is a live film, made of 2 screening-projections from 2 different spaces: the street in the front of the theatre and the off-stage.
In the first projection, me, in the role of a film director with a megaphone, I was fakingly directing the reality from the street, while observing and framing it in a spontaneous way, questioning the boundary between what is real and what isn't but also between documentary and fiction film.
The second live-camera was on the space behind the screen, where my "assistants" were preparing the clapboard for the takes and the final, endless credits.
Both images were seen in the theater in a simultaneous screening, showing the backstage of the film production process, in a performatic way.
PERSONAL MOTIVATION
What interests me in contemporary stage practice is the lack of the scene, the transformation of the theater, known both as a space for theatre plays and a space for film projections, into a space where the "curtain" extends its limits to the space in front and behind the scene, challenging the boundary between reality and fiction.
Another aspect that interests me is the everyday life and the aesthetics of it. I think life itself has a great creative potential and I started to explore it more and more in documentary films, although there is no such thing as "objective" documentary. I want to bring everyday life on the stage in a "live" way. Have you ever thought what happens on the space outside the theatre or behind the curtain, in the time you are watching a show? What if these spaces would become the show itself?
Transforming the people who normally walk on the street in (social) actors is also a topic which interests me a lot, especially nowadays when we are continuously being monitored by surveillance cameras without being conscious about it.
This project can be named as a cinema-performance, live-cinema / theater, performance streaming, performatic documentary etc., as I think there is no definite boundary between different artistic categories.
a project by Paula Onet
part of the performance "Siente-te como en casa"
Project developed for the class "Contemporary Scene Practice"
Coordinated by prof. Martina Botella Mestres
production UPV - Facultad de Bellas Artes Valencia and UNARTE Bucharest - Master of Photography and Dynamic Image
supported by I.F. Radu Onet
© 2015, Valencia, Spain
SYNOPSIS
The project is a live film, made of 2 screening-projections from 2 different spaces: the street in the front of the theatre and the off-stage.
In the first projection, me, in the role of a film director with a megaphone, I was fakingly directing the reality from the street, while observing and framing it in a spontaneous way, questioning the boundary between what is real and what isn't but also between documentary and fiction film.
The second live-camera was on the space behind the screen, where my "assistants" were preparing the clapboard for the takes and the final, endless credits.
Both images were seen in the theater in a simultaneous screening, showing the backstage of the film production process, in a performatic way.
PERSONAL MOTIVATION
What interests me in contemporary stage practice is the lack of the scene, the transformation of the theater, known both as a space for theatre plays and a space for film projections, into a space where the "curtain" extends its limits to the space in front and behind the scene, challenging the boundary between reality and fiction.
Another aspect that interests me is the everyday life and the aesthetics of it. I think life itself has a great creative potential and I started to explore it more and more in documentary films, although there is no such thing as "objective" documentary. I want to bring everyday life on the stage in a "live" way. Have you ever thought what happens on the space outside the theatre or behind the curtain, in the time you are watching a show? What if these spaces would become the show itself?
Transforming the people who normally walk on the street in (social) actors is also a topic which interests me a lot, especially nowadays when we are continuously being monitored by surveillance cameras without being conscious about it.
This project can be named as a cinema-performance, live-cinema / theater, performance streaming, performatic documentary etc., as I think there is no definite boundary between different artistic categories.