Films

My last Performance piece, were I applied paint to Tasha had such a good response, so good in fact that I started to believe that that was the route I should follow. Me and Tasha decided that we should set aside a date for filming  However someone had booked the darkroom for two weeks, so this means I couldn't go with what I originally had planned but I decided to improvise - I collected all my material and set off to Tasha's.

Firstly I got Tasha to sit in a chair and I painted her face completely dark blue. Just so that I had  base to work with. When I had finished this, I set aside the colors, Black and white and directed her as to what I wanted her to do in the film. I wanted her to spread the paint on her face and body freely - without any prohibitions, just to be free with the paint and not to worry with what color she had picked up. For it was most likely going to be edited anyway. I wanted some emotion to be playing in her face. To really accentuate what she was feeling at the time.

Here are some stills from the video before it got edited. I believe the stills of this piece are a lot more interesting then the actual film.

Finished Film 1.

Finished Film 2.

                                                                   Finished Film 3.

                                                       

Here are some more interesting stills from Film 1.

These videos that I directed of Tasha went really well, but I still wasn't happy with them. They really felt like she was acting and what I liked about the film before was its completely natural feel. So I decided to come back to the idea of using myself as the canvas - perhaps then it will be a lot more of what I wanted.