Experiment No.22 Depth of Field

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This experiment is part of a series titled Cinematic Experiments created by Margie Medlin with dance makers, Vicki Van Hout and Patrick Lucky Lartey, cinematographer Jane Castle, lighting designer, and media artist Fausto Brusamolino. The research took place as part of short residencies at FORM Dance Projects and the Creative Practice Research Unit at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, in January 2018. Funded by the Emerging and Experimental fund of the Australia Council for the Arts.

By editing the dance phrase and adding interventions of black frames and freeze frames Lucky's rhythm is manipulated. I explore the notion that the way that the body’s movement that fills and frees the camera frame affects the space within the frame. I am studying how the camera ‘can multiply objects, … it can divide objects and give significance and unity to a small, chosen section of reality’ (Stephenson, Debrix 1965: 89). In these experiments, I am interested in how the camera movement in tandem with the dancer’s movement can analyse space by fragmenting it, then re-forming it into a new whole.

Stephenson, R. D. J. R. (1965) The Cinema as Art. Great Britain: Penguin Books
The Cinematic Experiments project has created a moving image media library as source material for further experiments. The first twenty-three experiments function individually and as a collection. They can also be discussed as only the first process of two-part practice where the first part is to create the library and the second is to use the library as a malleable material for multi-screen public artwork. Experiments No.16A, B, C, No.20 and No.22 are the source material for Experiments No.25 A and B

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