Exchanges
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Based on an existing archive of real telephone conversations, Exchanges is an exploration of our lives as lived through the telephone. The film offers an omnipresent vision of the telecommunications environment. Paradoxically an all-pervasive yet simultaneously hidden phenomenon, surveillance reveals the telecommunications network as huge community, a non-space forming a container for all human drives and emotions.
Structurally, the work will make extensive use of the principle of combining disparate materials captured from life to form unexpected fictions around actuality.
Throughout the film, we hear a series of thematically linked but otherwise separate telephone conversations. We see images of places and events based around the conversations, which serve at times to illustrate, at times to show events tenuously linked to the conversation, and sometimes deliberately distort the content of the conversation. These images will be by turns drawn from life, mixed with fictional staging of events related to the conversations. The interaction of sound and image will by turns be designed to force conclusions upon the viewer, and at others will serve to invite an unexpected 'third voice' from the relationship between disparate sound and image; in this respect the locality of the telephone conversation is brought into question.
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