This short film was commissioned by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery. It was pretty painful for me. It was actually the most painful experience I had since I did my first video. I had wanted to do something that was completely abstract and figurative, something as visceral as possible. I also wanted to work with two performers and improvise the whole thing and do it all to Richard James' music. I did get to push the underwater thing even farther though. It was all filmed in a black studio. The thing that upsets me is that it isn't as abstract as I wanted it to be, but I found it almost impossible to do with a 35mm camera and anamorphic lenses as they are so heavy, so cumbersome. So I ended up making a piece that seemed like a part of a sequence of a story, which was a lot more narrative than I intended.
This short film was commissioned by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery. It was pretty painful for me. It was actually the most painful experience I had since I did my first video. I had wanted to do something that was completely abstract and figurative, something as visceral as possible. I also wanted to work with two performers and improvise the whole thing and do it all to Richard James' music. I did get to push the underwater thing even farther though. It was all filmed in a black studio. The thing that upsets me is that it isn't as abstract as I wanted it to be, but I found it almost impossible to do with a 35mm camera and anamorphic lenses as they are so heavy, so cumbersome. So I ended up making a piece that seemed like a part of a sequence of a story, which was a lot more narrative than I intended.