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Claire Cowan  

Skip

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2004
for two percussion

  • Instrumentation
    for two skipping ropes, two whistles, one water bottle, with ambient bird noises and optional video background park footage
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    Two fearless percussionists duel with skipping ropes and whistles, creating rhythms and improving their cardiovasular fitness simultaneously.

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Juliet Palmer  

Soaring Roaring Diving

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2008
a film directed by Miriam Harris and Juliet Palmer

  • Programme Note

    Soaring Roaring Diving wins Best Experimental Film award at the 2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival.

    Co-directed by Miriam Harris and Juliet Palmer, Soaring Roaring Diving is an animated film that intertwines drawing, Super8 footage, collage, and 2D and 3D animation, with a textured soundtrack mixing music and found sounds. Miriam Harris as animator and Juliet Palmer as composer worked closely together, aiming for a sequence in which sound and image are organically intertwined. The film swims and dives in a poetic journey through grief and, ultimately, resurfacing. The title alludes to Virginia Wolf’s description of the vicissitudes of both the imagination and of life.

    In communicating the perspective of a child and an adult,
    Harris employs a variety of drawing styles, ranging from
    loose sketches to more representational images. There are
    also two drawings by the then four year old daughter of Juliet Palmer, Miriam. A personal, almost diaristic, scrapbook aesthetic echoes the themes of time and personal
    journeying, and both 2D and 3D animation techniques have
    been utilized, so that the motifs of journeying possess a
    spatial dimensionality.

    Palmer’s approach to sound is similarly eclectic. Recording
    with Toronto musician Jean Martin, she has composed a
    haunting mixture of found sounds, percussion, and voice.
    Childhood echoes with the tinny percussiveness of a toy
    xylophone, as well as the voices of young divers at a
    swimming pool. Palmer sings, mutters, breathes, whistles,
    and hums while the sounds of paper resonate throughout the work. Ripping, fluttering, crumpling and scribbling, they
    create a visceral connection between image and sound.

    Soaring Roaring Diving was created with the support of the New Zealand Screen Innovation Fund.

    The 2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival presented 114
    films out of a record-breaking total of 2,770 submissions
    from 110 countries. BiFF was established in 1998 as the
    first international competitive film festival in New York.
    BiFF’s mission is to discover, expose, and promote
    independent filmmakers while drawing worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema.

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