Research project for the creation of a documentary about the city of Saint Étienne, in France. Inspired by the work of Sophie Calle (1953), I wandered through the streets of that grey city, following some residents, observing and photographing them. After developing the recorded photographic sequences, I drew over the pictures trying to imagine the emotional conflicts existing in the people and situations captured.
From photography I moved to video, filming those same characters and editing the captured images. In the same way I used drawing in the previous phase, I used sound to punctuate the emotional conflicts I identified in the characters I observed.
The photographs I captured are fragments of small stories I observed, which assembled in sequence allowed me, as an observer, to imagine what was "between" each two fragments, that is, to discover what was not photographed. In this way, I read the photographed shots as a fluid sequence, the "Kuleshov Effect" expressed in this work through drawing and sound.
From photography I moved to video, filming those same characters and editing the captured images. In the same way I used drawing in the previous phase, I used sound to punctuate the emotional conflicts I identified in the characters I observed.
The photographs I captured are fragments of small stories I observed, which assembled in sequence allowed me, as an observer, to imagine what was "between" each two fragments, that is, to discover what was not photographed. In this way, I read the photographed shots as a fluid sequence, the "Kuleshov Effect" expressed in this work through drawing and sound.
