INSTALLATION
5 x hollow glass spheres, 5 x video projectors, 5 x DVD players on continuous loop
FILM
Based on the prose-poem Bathysphere by Andrew McDonnell
Sound: Tom Simmons
Director of Photography: Emma Dalesman
Screening formats: Digibeta PAL, Beta SP, miniDV, DVD
Ratio: 16:9
Running time: 00:05:32
© RCA 2006
**SCREENINGS 2007-8
East End Film Festival, London, UK
700.IS Experimental Film Festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland
VIDEOFORMES Festival of New Media and Video Art, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Early Melons International Student Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
International Underwater Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
zwergWERK Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage, Oldenburg, Germany
up-and-coming International Film Festival, Hanover, Germany
FILMSTOCK International Film Festival, Luton, UK
Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland
Puchon International Student Animation Festival, Puchon, South Korea
BALKANIMA European Animated Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Roxy presents...RCA Animation, Roxy Bar and Screen, London, UK
PROJECTION SPACE, Shot by the Sea Film Festival, Hastings, UK
PLAY EXCERPT (00:01:40)
Ghostly light projections captured within delicate glass bubbles
Describing a strange, subconscious world where our memories and daydreams lie.
Real, unreal.
Imagined, re-imagined, distorted.
Telling tales of our selves and our lives; a different tale each time.
This world is an underwater place- dark, unknown and exquisite
A place where past and present collide.
I was looking for ways to represent images of memory- to capture something of the elusive, magical and mercurial nature of my daydreams. My friend Andrew wrote a prose poem about a Bathysphere (an old fashioned deep-sea diving vessel), which made me think of spheres, bubbles, watery places and how images could be distorted by the curve of a glass porthole.
Michaela Nettell, June 2007