Video and live narration, Single channel HD video, 12 minutes 24 seconds, 2015
The Tragedy of a Character (Sequel: TOMIS), live voice over is the second version of this work, the first taking place as a performance at the Five Years Gallery, “Worlds Apart, Kjetil Berge with Jason Havneraas” exhibition, July 2014. This second version presents a new version specially staged for camera. The work is also a sequel to an earlier work, “The Oldest Man in Sogn og Fjordane”, which formed part of a wider project Kom til deg il Tidende commissioned by the Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmusuem in 2012.
“The Tragedy of a Character” forms a sequel in the afterlife of a fictionalised self-aware, character Anne-Marie previously developed for the project “Kom til deg i Tidende” (2012) - the character being “the oldest man in Sogn og Fjordane”, a region in western Norway. Creamer creates a new work that develops the cinematic capacities of writing to describe her enigmatic encounter with the old man who makes a forlorn but angry return to a peninsula in Norway in order to meet with her. Creamer uses this as a way to extend her use of form and her interpretation of cinema: various elements of this new ‘film’ are held apart and are instead extended into the physical space of a gallery, performed live in front of an audience. Specifically, the human voice is simultaneously a performed event as well asprecisely timed, out of frame Voice-Over tightly synchronized to edited footage together with an atmospheric use of sound effects and music. The work makes use of spectacle and storytelling, making strategic use of Anne-Marie’s presence in the film as well as the physical presence of the audience. “The Tragedy of a Character” forms part of an on-going exploration of alternative ways to create cinema without film in the traditional sense. In these terms ‘Cinema’ also becomes an range of artistic strategies, involving drawing, the moving image, cinematic writing, sound, music, as well as objects and props.
For information on Anne-Marie’s related work, Kom til deg i Tidende look at TRAILER - The Oldest Man in Sogn Og Fordane and The Oldest Man in Sogn Og Fordane, part 1 obituary
live voice over narrator: Anne-Marie Creamer
Sequel version 1: The Tragedy of a Character, live voice-over, script extract.
Text written by Anne-Marie Creamer, 2014.
Sequel version 1: The Tragedy of a Character, at the Five Years gallery, 2014
Live Voice-Over, projected image, and sound effects & music
Duration: 10 minutes.
2014
(image: Anne-Marie performing a live voice-over for 'Sequel version 1: The Tragedy of a Character, live voice-over' at the Five Years gallery in 2014).
Sequel version 1: The Tragedy of a Character
Live Voice-Over, projected image, and sound effects & music
Duration: 10 minutes.
2014
“The Tragedy of a Character” forms a sequel in the afterlife of a fictionalised self-aware, character Anne-Marie previously developed for the project “Kom til deg i Tidende” (2012) - the character being “the oldest man in Sogn og Fjordane”, a region in western Norway. Creamer creates a new work that develops the cinematic capacities of writing to describe her enigmatic encounter with the old man who makes a forlorn but angry return to a peninsula in Norway in order to meet with her. Creamer uses this as a way to extend her use of form and her interpretation of cinema: various elements of this new ‘film’ are held apart and are instead extended into the physical space of a gallery, performed live in front of an audience. Specifically, the human voice is simultaneously a performed event as well asprecisely timed, out of frame Voice-Over tightly synchronized to edited footage together with an atmospheric use of sound effects and music. The work makes use of spectacle and storytelling, making strategic use of Anne-Marie’s presence in the film as well as the physical presence of the audience. “The Tragedy of a Character” forms part of an on-going exploration of alternative ways to create cinema without film in the traditional sense. In these terms ‘Cinema’ also becomes an range of artistic strategies, involving drawing, the moving image, cinematic writing, sound, music, as well as objects and props.
For information please look at Anne-Marie’s related work, Kom til deg i Tidende.
Sequel version 1: The Tragedy of a Character - still