Between Amateurs (2007)

They are already packed to leave. Or they have yet to really arrive. They are wavering. They meet at that junction between really knowing and really doubting where they are and what their role is. One likes to dance. The other likes to film. Together they slip into a performance sphere driven by a desire to exchange roles and share skills. They like to play the way amateurs do: for the pleasure of it. Yet their game gets progressively more serious as rules for play begin to emerge and transform. Gradually, they find themselves twisting and perverting their established roles. The stage (their playground) becomes a collection of odd little construction sites. Cables, equipment, fabrics and other superfluous objects are used for the purpose of do-it-yourself film shoots and choreographies. They are carrying countless images absorbed over time, moving images and images of moving bodies. They also face the images of still, anonymous, lifeless bodies that have become more and more familiar, more present for all of us. As amateurs regarding these images, the one who likes to dance and the one who likes to film will probably realise that if those bodies are covered with veils for protection those same veils might become a projection screen for their own fears. Through the process they plainly risk their own bodies to exposure and as they confront them to the over exposure of images they are willing to acknowledge that the traces they leave in the audience’s memory won’t last for ever either.