The Moment of Air Before a Whisper - a return to Pagan dreaming. Obscurity of a liminal lost/found belief. To turn on a sense, feeling a whisper, Hitchcock's spell meets a philosophical 'turn' at the realisation something is not what it seems. A short 16mm film shot with Bolex camera as part of a project with local ARI and analogue film collective, Artist Film Workshop. The film levitates through the threshold. Ravens call out at the point of anagnorisis: the moment of a plot in which ignorance shifts into knowledge. Typically in theatre or film the protagonist makes a critical discovery whereupon the audience shares their experience of shock, catharsis, enthralment, or a deep realisation as to the true nature of the afore upheld circumstances that have now fallen away. The 'turn' of this sort is found in Aristotle, narrative, horror, and especially Hitchcock's films. Screened with The Wandering Room for the Melbourne Fringe, Nov 2020.
Melody Woodnutt