Improv-Film Experiment:
Everywhere that Mary Went...
" It was wild, fast and fun, liberated from
pre-determined outcomes and dramaturgical formulas..."
Everywhere that Mary Went was an experimental improvised collaborative film project. While a rough draft of ideas was discussed with Laterally Creative, based on the story and vision of Screenbitch.com, the film was shot without a storyboard or script. Director, P.D. Casely-Hayford, describes the film as " a wild carnival ride in the dark, never knowing what was around each corner. Screenbitch.com gave me the ticket, we all got on board with little idea of the destination, or how we were going to get there. I imagined scenes when we arrived at each location with the cast and crew, and we all went for it. My only guide was a description of the mood for each scene from the Producer who would later knit together what we captured to create her story in post-production.The actors and crew were great. They trusted the process and committed to each scene. No rehearsals, little blocking and only one take, then literally pack up and run to the next location. This style of film making created an edge, which transferred onto the film. Plus, lots of hand held close ups to build tension on screen. I'm still making sense of it all. It was wild, fast and fun, liberated from pre-determined outcomes and dramaturgical formulas."
The film explores hauntings of guilt and its repression, leading to its eventual explosion. There is no dialogue, only biting images of memories, a scrambling of the tenses of time, and an eerie grinding soundscape composed by Laterally Creative.
The film is shot in black and white with split screens.
There's always more...
red hat
Red Hat was a film and theatre project featuring Playback Theatre with the Sunshine Coast Playback Theatre Company, Australia. The documentary film of the performance was later screened at the 10th Annual Playback Theatre Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2007. The photograph shows three performers left to right; Anna Heriot, Zjamal Xanitha and Adam Cashmore-Brooke re-enacting a scene during the filming in the Black Box Studio at S.C.A.I.P, Queensland, Australia. ...Read more
PROJECT 24
When is the creative piece finished? Once taken from the creative practitioner and published or exhibited or performed, the work is suspended in its own time and space, as if the creative process has a beginning and end. Two urban black creative practitioners, one Australian aboriginal artist and one Afro-Australian committing to a collaborative exploration ready to respond, recall, re-enact, re-create. We're open to the journey.... Read more... indigenous ephemerality- art soundscape PROJECT
This project is currently underway. Imagine a natural setting as the canvas, two urban black creative practitioners, one Australian aboriginal artist and one Afro-Australian soundscape artist collaborating. Read more...