‘Heads will roll’ is the executioner’s grisly promise. The executioner’s house in Venice portrays a disembodied head – a catalyst for an image of a head rolling across the ground. But a rolling head still has some momentum. And a body with a head can also roll. Rolling is a form of travel that confuses …
Author Archives: scmcleod
Productive day, possible score
Dario and I had our first day trying to make something. We walked to Calle De La Testa (close to Pallazo Bembo) and checked out the street. It’s a local neighbourhood…not tourist territory. In the small plaza in front of the head on the wall, we filmed some material – my head turning along the …
The Provocation
“Prompted by three different scenes: the church San Nicolo dei Mendicoli in Dorsoduro, the house of the executioner on Calle de la Testa in Cannaregio, and Palazzo Bembo itself, consider movement and form through new and old media mechanisms in live, documented and post-produced events.” FuneREEL Scenes Venice is a stage space. It is self-replicating …
Responses to the provocation: Shaun
Reel spaces…film work, photography, movement. Loops, repetitions, sequences, self-replication…filmic and choreographic uses of movement and time. Death, decay, decline, sinking, falling…words for scores that give rise to movement activities (and emotional responses). Melancholy. Ghostly images of ephemeral apparitions. The effects of climate change. Strategic ‘mapping of the city’ (3 sites make an extended line). 3 …
venetian shards 