LAST SEMINAR WITH MIKE FIGGIS

There seems to be some need to write something down concerning the experience of our penultimate seminar, maybe just the experience of working through peer work or possibily an indication of something larger.

Even though the screening of the PROLOGUE was a technical mess, it received glowing reviews from peers/Figgis - validating.

• Attend to PART V of the prologue. Begin with vox, re-recorded from scratch, with new imagery sewing it together. Get it up on the web.

• Make sure that the prologue video files are playing properly and make them readily accessible on the tw website - infrastructural reorganization

Some elements of actors acting in more/less natural/synthetic environments:

• Huge schism between natural language (ref: worldings of natural language, as method and philosophical implications) and the artificially constructed oral presence of pure monologue. A matter of believability, relation to daily lived existence, and the subtle nuanced modes of discomfort that can emerge from a performance.

• I certainly need to put in more work into character development: directions for behaviors, limitations imposed upon way of speaking, and an architecture for casting the roles: aesthetic decisions, formal possibilities. Once the structure is more clearly defined it can be fucked with - the interesting project of reduction, taking elements away, stripped of their context, to see what possibilities emerge.

• Potential to develop characters in musical ensemble: caste of characters / heirarchy. How to articulate the potential inter-modal relations between participants without directing/inhibiting their range of potential expressions within the structure: create frames within which they may function autonomously.

The importance of essential sound.

The importance of focused use of camera perspective.

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