Reimagining

As some of you may have heard, we have a show coming up at Monkey Town on Dec 6th. This has involved a lot of work.

From our end (the other end being the band Oliphant) we are presenting 4 videos. 3 have been shown before and 1 premiere. The work comes from the location. Monkey Town is an impressive space. 4 giant screens (one for each wall) in a room where the audience sits around the walls, with a performance space in the middle. I have seen a few shows there, and the usual M.O. is to have all 4 screens playing the same thing. There is a logic to this since each audience member will have one screen behind them, and therefore cannot see it. However, I think this approach does not properly utilize the space. I mean, you've got these 4 GIANT SCREENS.

So, we are repurposing the videos. And by we, I mean me. That's OK I enjoy it. Luckily I had lots of help in the generating ideas phase. We aren't adding to the footage we already shot, so we need to find ways to take advantage of the 4 screens with videos that were meant to be shown on one screen while keeping in mind that each of the 4 screens will not be seen by 25% of the audience.

It has been fun, and I am aided by the pieces that I directed making liberal use of split screen. I guess I am the DePalma of SPINE. Which makes Cory=Scorsese, Kristen=Coppola and Allen=Landis.

I am finishing up the DVD burning tonight, and we should find out on Sunday if it all works as planned. Because, where the hell are you going to test this out?