The deep sealiehope - a dance film for ART EXPLOSION 78 theme deep ocean

I am sitting in my cardbord boatboxbrain. I am dreaming of the seaskyworld. I am freelonleysad. Trying to swimmsearchreach someone who careslovesfeels. Floating in the waterthoughtstears. I come across a stormfightlost and try to navigate. I am spinning helplessly feeling illstrongbrave. I will dive deeper and deeperupout.

Sometimes I lie in my bed neither awake nor asleep. Images flood my brain and some of them speak to me with a strange kind of truth. This short film developed out of one of them. I saw myself standing inside a cardbordbox wearing a swimsuit and diver goggles. The sea was spilling out of the box, washing over my ankles into a dark nothing. In my imagination the water was build out of turquoise skeins of yarn. The room was dark, lit only by a small lamp and I had to prepare for something, for everything.

And then I was thrown into the ocean, floating upside down. Having no direction, no aim and no clear emotion. All was water – inside and outside.

Another cut and I was fighting the water. I was thrown out of my box. All security gone. I had to fight to hold onto the box. Struggling to climb inside. Running in it over water, defying the tides, the water and the wind. I was thrown from left to right. The horizon disappeared behind huge waves. I had to hold the wheel tightly to steer my box through the storm.

Finally, everything collapsed. The box revealing itself as a box. The cardboard ripping in the ocean. And me… remembering these strange images. Sitting amidst of skeins of wool.

And as the film and photos are very dark, here are some brighter photos of the making of. Demystifying everything :-D We filmed and photographed with an iphone x. The music I recorded with an Ipad Pro. For the music editing I used audacity and Magix for the cutting.

Thank you @juliakponsford and @vachemorte you are a constant inspiration for me to create and experiment. This is my entry for ART EXPLOSION 78 theme deep ocean.