Everything Looks Beautiful in Slow Motion (2010)
Overview
Everything Looks Beautiful in Slow Motion is a window-based intervention set in the context of a shopping centre or high street shopping area.
Further Details
The work takes a short 10-second video of pedestrians as they pass by the front of the window and subsequently replays the video in slow motion and black and white with an accompanying ambient soundtrack.
Slow-motion and black and white are standard techniques often employed by the mainstream film industry to emphasise key moments of a narrative in cinema. The piece utilises these tools to highlight the everyday actions of pedestrians as they pass through a shopping centre. It aims to elevate the validity of these mundane and often overlooked actions in a choreographic context.
Video Documentation
Presentations
2013 City Moves, Aberdeen
2011 Brighton Festival
2010 The Living Room, Billingshurst, West Sussex
2010 Dance Digital, Chelmsford
2010 Fuse Festival, Strood, Kent
2006 Sadlers Well's Theatre (smaller format, non-window installtion)
Credits
A Dance Digital commission
Funded through Arts Council England