ALEX CLARE - RELAX MY BELOVED

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  • Jules' Jewels Wow, this is absolutely stunning, great idea!
    Best of luck. ;)
    1 year ago - comment
    • francescafini thanks! Best of luck to you too!
      1 year ago
    • AnnieKnomus so cool! How did you do the head candle?
      1 year ago
    • francescafini I've been inspired by a photograph by my partner in the perfromance Marco Casolino, where he digitally put a candle in his head. Of course elaborating this concept in video was a lot more difficult. I created a hole with clay and put a clandel inside. Filmed it for hours while melting, against a black background, then created a mask in my editing software, in onrder to have just the hole with the candle. I then attached the masked movie to the heads with the software Motion, the motion tracking plugin (the plugin attach anything - video or movie - to another movie provided that you put a clear visual reference. We had whithe round stickers attached to our head as reference. The software tracks the motion of the reference and then attach an external movie or picture to it.) Sorry for my english!
      1 year ago
    • Quinn Chilling ending, and thank you very much for the candle explanation!
      1 year ago
    • Bchristian I had no idea you could do that in motion, I always used after effects. Great work though, the set up with the taping of the knives and then the fight were very tense...awesome.
      1 year ago
Artist: Alex Clare
Song: Relax My Beloved
16 Jan 2011 568 0 6

Description:

A man and a woman are telling their story, made of love and anger, passion and indifference, a story that culminates in the symbolic exchange of food, milk, bondage and fight. Will they ever find a way to understand each other? To overcome fear and violence? The mind is always present but the flames is burning too fast.

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Credits:

- a performance by Francesca Fini and Marco Casolino
- script, direction and editing Francesca Fini
- photography Alessandro Iafulla
- the "candle in the head" image is inspired by "Attraverso", a photographic work by Marco Casolino
- superimposed film noise: "Filmic grunge", by Synthetick and "Vintage 8mm blank Film" by Mini-Cinema

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Italy By: francescafini
16 Jan 2011

Country: Italy

URL: www.francescafini.com

Bio:

videoartist, live media & body art performer.

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