Wednesday 14 November 2012, 15:22
I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel as you watch the images.
For the last year or so I have been collecting all sorts of footage of people dancing that I found in the BBC archives. In all I gathered over two thousand shots culled from all kinds of programmes. I then cut some of them together to music by the wonderful 70s German band Neu.
I think it gives a sense that we are all together in the dance.
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I then took exactly the same sequence of images - I haven't altered even a frame - and put them to a montage of some very different music. There are all sorts of songs and pieces in there - but it owes a great deal to the great romantic musical genius of our age - Burial.
I think that this other version nbsp;you tolook at the people dancingin a very different way. The feeling it evokes ishow separate we are - and how isolated we sometimes are from one another.
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accordianking14th November 2012 - 16:20
I love editing to "Hallo Gallo", it's one I always come back to. It has a quality of perpetuity which offers a feeling of hope, of endlessness. The beat in Neu gives a sense of togetherness, of a mechanical happening of forces interacting. Burial in contrast is very isolating. Great stuff here Adam, as always.
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zz_james14th November 2012 - 16:39
Thanks, watching people dance is great, reminds you people are amazing
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davidsonhrj14th November 2012 - 18:30
Marker's 'Letter from Siberia' comes to mind - great stuff.
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Andy14th November 2012 - 22:16
For me the Neu track pushes the narrative, in such a combination we are used to, and in doing so it does not allow room for any introspection or pause. The Burial track seems to disrupt this narrative and in doing so delivers a different emotional response, one that we are not used so perhaps and don't swallow so easily.
In the first edit I was drawn to the movement of the dancers and in the second edit I was drawn to their faces, to see who was in there.
Excellent, as always.
(PS Any chance of putting whole of the AC Serpentine Memory Marathon presentation up at some point?)
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grne14th November 2012 - 22:32
Is there a tracklist for the second video? if not, could OP post it? thanks
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