MIMESIS by Spenser

 https://youtu.be/5P5519zVUGs


Here is a little dance film I made exploring the question of sufferance in order to find both individual and collective meaning around origin and drive! 

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  1. Julia MuratOctober 13, 2022 at 8:33 AM

    Spenser, can you talk a bit about your process? why did you choose to have those images related to those texts? What those images bring? Why this kind of movement in your body?

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  2. Ethan PhilbrickOctober 13, 2022 at 10:58 AM

    ooooo, yes, i echo julia's questions here -- would love to hear more about your process...

    here are some things i started thinking about:

    what is editing as a choreographic mode? or said differently, how, in dance film, does editing of the moving image because an extension of choreography?

    one thing i think that dance film, as a genre, has to contend with now is the proliferation and ubiquity of tik tok dance videos, as a genre... so for me, the shots where the camera is stable and the dancer is moving can really index tik tok as an image regime and something can get sort of blank in them because of this... the parts of this piece that i get most excited about are when both the dancer and the camera are moving, the partial shots, the unfixed shots...

    i love the editing and glitching of the machine voice that happens... i wonder about pushing this practice, both of machine reading and glitching, even further...

    it could be interesting for you to look at some recent video art beyond the sphere of dance... do you know ryan trecartin's work?

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  3. ChipOctober 13, 2022 at 11:38 AM

    layers upon layers upon layers! thank you for building this for us. i'm also interested in the image text relationship. and curious about this video as a ritual. . . movement as ritual, habit, event... somatic proprioception of philosophy? is there a position on words spoken. . .are they affirmed by the gestures we see or do the gestures create a dialectic to the voice over?

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