Mean
From www.oscarvandillen.com
Mean is a short film by Clive Holden with original music and soundscape by Oscar van Dillen is the very first part of the larger Utopia Suite project (2006-2012), a diptych made from VHS found footage and original Super 8 film, resulting in two film frames set into one HD frame, and exhibited in 35mm film or on Blu-ray Disc.
Program notes to the music and soundscape
The audio consists of a soundscape with noisy sounds, among which is a film projector running and a crowd ecstatically cheering some unmentioned political leaders, mixed with part of a recording of my toy piano piece mm3. The violent fighting by the hockey-players in the left frame coincides with the naïveity of the toy piano music, which is also deliberately slightly out of tune, as the performer plays 3 different toy pianos at the same time.
Part of Utopia Suite
(Part of the larger project Utopia Suite (2006-2012), in collaboration with Clive Holden: see also cyclopspress and www.cliveholden.com)
External links
- A full project description can be found on Clive Holden's website here.
- www.utopiasuite.com
