kasia cieplak - mayr von baldegg

rotoscope animation

music: "Sleep the Clock Around" - Belle & Sebastian

FIN is experimental narrative about a breakup, and also about the disintegration of memory and narrative in the age of digital media. Like many film school theses, it's a shameless love letter to Godard, who famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Starring Julia Chan and Toby Burns.

PS04: A Paint Show
performance/documentary, 60 minutes, 2004

A video of the Experience This! theater company's Paint Show, a participatory dance/paint experience and smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of 2004. Shot by me and edited by AKA Media System.

photo by Greg Gagnon

"This is if you don't count [PS04] A Paint Show, a dark and totally involving experience, in which there are no seats. There is no stage, either - there is a backstage, but audience and actors occupy the same performance area: a large indoor tent. Everyone must strip and don white boiler suits before entering. The 24-year-old director, Andrew Boch, who has developed the project through four incarnations over the past three years, admits an open debt to club culture: raucous dance music supplies the background, while glowing things, bouncy things and sticky things make up the body of the entertainment.

Coloured tribes form from the paint-spattered mass. Then cast members encourage dances, games and even fights among the audience, communicating the rules with nothing but physical gestures and non-human grunts. I saw people lose it in there. And I think I may have lost in there, too. Certainly in my first fight, as champion of the red team, I found myself surprisingly merciless towards the poor girl from the hated blue tribe. There were moments when I didn't feel completely human."

-- The Guardian