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ATARRASHI YUME
Dec-Jan 2002-2003
In several pieces Beeoff has worked with one scenery slowly changing during
the broadcast. In this piece their work took a new direction. Instead of one
scene Atarashi Yume involved several different small sceneries, not much larger
than a shoe-box, filmed in real-time with a number of surveillance
cameras. The scenes were intended to be seen as small parts of one or several
dreams. Dreams in which the scenery often changed abruptly and the associations
could take the most unexpected ways from horror to something more peaceful.
In Atarashi Yume the Beeoff group used the camera to create an illusion. When the small sceneries were filmed they were enlarged. Objects that in the real world are just a few inches long became huge and it was hard to measure the sizes. All together the different sceneries completed the illusion of a dream.
Many of the Beeoff group's pieces have built on monotony, emptiness and minimalism.
This piece was more narrative and the intentention was to make some sort of
a real-time film created for a long period of time. The soundtrack was a very
important part of it and decided in many ways the mood. It
was mixed in real time and followed the image flow. What you see is also what
you hear.
