MONK: RELOADED
The Physical TV Company's latest dance film, Monk: Reloaded,
a collaboration between Australian director/choreographer/performer Richard James Allen
and German light/sound/sculpture interactive installation artist Chris Ziegler,
draws on real time interactive installation technology
to create an unexpected cinematic experience of living in the moment.
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One Line Synopsis:
"Monk: Reloaded" is a short film which draws on real time interactive installation technology
to create an unexpected cinematic experience of living in the moment.
Two Line Synopsis:
A solitary, hesitant figure grows bold then frenetic searching for steady glow and melodic resolution in a chiaroscuro hanging glass forest that responds with light and song to gesture and motion. Reframing "The Prayer of Saint Francis" using real time installation technology, "Monk: Reloaded" reboots spirituality for the new media age.
Three Line Synopsis:
"“Monk: Reloaded” is a short dance film in which a solitary figure moves through a space filled with vertical illumination – hanging glass tubes that generate light and fragments of song in response to gesture and motion. The eponymous ‘monk’ begins hesitantly and grows first bold and then frenetic in his search for a steady glow and melodic resolution, which comes to him finally, only when he stills his own fluctuations. A collaboration between Australian director/choreographer/performer Richard James Allen and German light/sound/sculpture interactive installation artist Chris Ziegler, The Physical TV Company's latest dance film, “Monk: Reloaded” draws on real time interactive installation technology to create an unexpected cinematic experience of living in the moment.
Director’s Notes:
"Monk: Reloaded" was generated at Critical Path, a unique Australian dance research ‘lab’, as part of the SEAM2010 Symposium, using the responsive light/sound/sculpture installation of Chris Ziegler. As a director, I was interested in exploring how the ephemeral experience of real time interactive technology could be utilised to generate uniquely refreshing visual and sound imagery for the more fixed medium of film, allowing non-linear creativity to enrich the linear, lateral timeless momentsto enhance the progression through a timeline. And then equally to allow the richness of the cinematic creation process, the exquisite spatial decision making of the lens, the embodied dance of editing and the vibrational physicality of sound design to offer their own transformational alchemy to leave us with
an after image of the experience of live interaction.
For the soundtrack, instead of writing my own poem, as I might normally have done, I wanted to use a spiritual text that was already well-known so that when it was broken up and accessed in non-linear pieces it would still be recognizable. I chose “The Prayer of St Francis” because it provided the opportunity for something whole, complete and contained and yet capable of non-linear play and multi-directional resonance. Thematically, I am also interested in this prayer as an echo from the past with resonance to our present and future, and as part of a broader project across a number of Physical TV Company works over the last few years, such as "Entanglement Theory" and "Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life", which aim to bring spirituality back into the catapulting leap forwards of our technology.
Credits
Director/Choreographer/Performer: Richard James Allen
Interactive Scenography “wald-forest”, Lights: Chris Ziegler
Interactive Sound Design: Daniel Portelli
Music/Text by: Song based on the prayer commonly known as
“The Prayer of Saint Francis”
Cinematographers: Devris Hasan and David Doyle
Editor: Karen Pearlman
Production Recordist: Serge Stanley
Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer: William Lawlor
Producers: Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen
Post Production Consultant: Martin Fox
Sound Editing and Mixing Facility: Huzzah Sound
Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew Plain
Titles Designer: Karen Pearlman
Post Production Facility: FSM
Post Production Producer: Pauline Piper
Colour Grader: Heather Hay
Credits Designer and Online Editor: David Tindale
35mm Film Output Facility: Weta
35mm Film Output Supervisor: Pete Williams
35mm Laboratory: Park Road Post
35mm Laboratory Supervisor: Nina Kurzmann
Stills Photographers: Michael Jones and Kyle Powderly
Special Thanks to
Margie Medlin, Helen Martin, Yeehwan Yeoh, Critical Path and SEAM2010
Kathryn Puie, Leah Grycewicz, Karen Kerkhoven, Imogen Cranna, David Clarkson
Donna Chang, Vicki Attard, Jocelyn Allen, Joan Pearlman, Samuel Lucas Allen, Jadzea Allen
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Screenings - Work-in-Progress
Screenings - Completed Film
- agite y sirva, Danza Unam, Mexico City, Mexico
- Locomocion, Festival de Danza Contemporanea, Puebla, Mexico
(agite y sirva screendance touring festival)
- Somatics and Technology Conference, University of Chichester, UK
- Wallpaper dance, Trieste, Italy
- Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Songs of Interwoven Lights, Queensland Poetry Festival, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- La Muestra Internacional Bailar a Pantalla, Guadalajara, Mexico
(agite y sirva screendance touring festival)
- IF ONLY Festival, Birr, Ireland (agite y sirva screendance touring festival)
- InShadow, International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal
- IDN Festival, Short Dance Films, Barcelona, Spain and touring to centres related to the European project Modul Dance
- Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
- World of Women Film Festival, Sydney, Australia and touring
- Loikka Dance Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Screenings - Broadcast
Monk: Reloaded has been acquired for multiple broadcasts by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Awards
Monk: Reloaded won the Audience Choice Award, Digi-Media Vodule,
WOW YouTube Channel, at the 2013 World of Women (WOW) Film Festival.
Monk: Reloaded was a Finalist for Best Australian Digi-Media Vodule
at the 2013 World of Women (WOW) Film Festival.
Monk: Reloaded was nominated an ‘Ellie’ at the Australian Screen Editors Guild (ASE) Awards 2012
- the Digistor Award for Best Editing, Open Content for Karen Pearlman.
Monk: Reloaded was shortlisted for finalist consideration for the 2012 Blake Prize
and selected for the 2012 Directors Cut Exhibition, an online exhibition that will feature
on the Blake Prize Society's website from 16 January 2013 until 16 April 2013.
This film is dedicated to David Life,
co-founder with Sharon Gannon of Jivamukti Yoga
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