Tina Gonsalves
Melancholia
00:03:55 2008
Emotions are part of our everyday. Over the last ten years the artist has explored the intimacies and vulnerabilities of human emotions through video, wearable technology, and interactivity and installation.
The film uses hypnosis to create an emotionally potent sound track that becomes the foundation to each film. Under hypnosis, the artist is asked to re-experience potent emotional memories of her life. Using photography, digital and found video, the aim is to evocatively recreate/re-imagine these memories through moving image and sound. Through effects and edits the artist translates the emotional resonance of the event, with the re-enactment being somewhat more evocative, whimsical and poetic than the lived event. The memory becomes more amplified through colour, space and texture.
Direction: Tina Gonsalves
Sound: Tina Gonsalves, Joel Cahen
Neuroscientific input: Dr Hugo Critchley
Hypnosis: Dr David Oakley
DVD available