| Double screen
installation
Directed by David Bickerstaff
Silent video | 2 x 4:3 | 10 minutes
Forró is the traditional form of Brazilian dance music developed
by workers in the North of Brazil. The music is very energetic and
the dance is close and intimate. This dual screen video installation
shows footage filmed in a Sao Paulo Forró club using an infrared
camera. The footage has been slowed down digitally by warping frames
together, which heightens the lyrical nature of movement. The two
screens show two points of view from similar scenes although filmed
from a single source.
While documenting the dancers, I noticed that
Forró was popular with young people who used this traditional
dance to form intimate relationships within a cultural construct
based on self-expression.
The idea is to emphasize this physical engagement
displayed by the dancers by slowing it down and stripping out emotive
elements like colour and sound. This process heightens the poetics
of gesture, accessing the ritualistic language of dance and accentuates
the magical nature of human interaction.
List of screenings
Tannery Arts, London
FILE 05, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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