To Finish

By Zara

Our ideas for the film script manifested meanwhile and as a direct result of the material that was created, and by the time we had developed a dance and music track there was little to decide on other than certain aesthetic details. We decided on details regarding how to contextualise the sound and dance material together, creating a story that we perceive as an office woman dreaming of what it is to become at one with nature, and that dream not turning out as planned.

Following myself and Sapphira’s artistic research for the film, I moved onwards to work as a filmmaker, using our material to resultantly create a film that structured improvised movement, and that fused and distorted performed sound. I took this role whilst discussing and ensuring that the resultant film being developed matched our envisioning of the script, our perspectives behind artistic stimuli and our ambitions for the artistic material we had developed.  

Looking back on the project from where I am now, I would like to finish with some quotes from my responses I gave for a recent interview with Sick Love:

“In essence I wanted to use dance, film and sound interdependently to paint a picture… Whether that picture ended up being received as an explicitly decipherable idea or as a purely bizarre and abstract vignette didn’t matter to me, as long as the material was inspired and a true rendering of the feelings put into it.“

“I now think we have little grip of what the word ‘natural’ means. Whether that’s through having little regard for the environment but great carbon accounting, whether that’s through attacking people’s diversity or choices with what they do with their bodies, or making choices about how we treat our health. I think that all too often we make the word mean what we want it to. That’s why I associate it with a dream. “

I would love for you to join me in accompanying workshops for the project, as the project is not complete without sharing my practice to explore the broader perspectives of others and a greater community…

Through this I hope to encourage people to similarly use performance as a way of making some unworldly sense of what can’t be firmly defined.