![]() ![]() It is a contemporary work that reflects the dis-ease and uncertainty of our current world as well as our insistent desire and need to incorporate those wounds and transform them. Despite this, the piece attempts to represent the spaces we manage to extract from within this chaos, which in turn create new and anachronistic forms and sounds. The piece speaks to the tensions that currently exist in an increasingly chaotic world as cultures clash with one another through displacement, exile, war and economies, and wherein technologies clash with environments. Her work with improvisation was to become a perfect complement for these seemingly random yet patterned instances.īoth the music performance as well as the visual component of Bird on a Wire takes its cue from improvisation. ![]() Wanting to then mimic the language of these recorded moments, of these interventions, I decided to team up with acclaimed jazz and experimental Canadian composer and musician, Marilyn Lerner. I continued to collect images that resisted those definitions.įinding solace in the patterning of birds and the unusual marriage of birds in an urban landscape, birds on wires, birds in train stations and airports, I recorded these moments as both reminders and escapes of the everyday. As I continued my travels, experiencing varying forms of unrest, war, conflict, suspicion, etc. Beginning this project in the midst of filming Zero Degrees of Separation, I felt the need to eke-out a space in which to experience normalcy in madness. Using a mobile phone, a still camera, a video recorder and sometimes Super 8 and 16mm, I recorded the everyday in the extraordinary. Bird on a Wire is a project that crosses the disciplines of sound, film, video, installation and performance expanding the limits of cinema and challenging the crossover between film, art and sound works. Music Composed and Performed by: Marilyn Lernerīird on a Wire is a two-channel film projection accompanied by a live music performance that will be screened in five cities over the period of one year. Two-screen projection with live music performance ![]()
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