=DEATH OF A MOTH=
INSPIRATION
The Death of a Moth by Vrigina Woolf
The essay is about an afternoon in which Virginia was watching a Moth trapped in a window-pane, with no escape. At the beginning she talks about how a moth is not as gracious as a butterfly nor as somber as some other moths that prefer to go out at night. The moth in particular is enjoying its flight in the afternoon, in the sun light though it is about to be gone. At the end, I understand, she deserves to die for the night is coming.
IDEA
The original idea was to release a moth and a human being in a squared room. Both were going to be tracked and the human was going to be followed by light. I wanted to play with the fear induced by the moth to the human and so that the human would be in the position of the moth, having that feeling of being trapped.
The essay basically speaks about a moth trapped in a window. Since in the lab we are working with movement and we cannot record or track the moth yet the idea has to be changed. I was excited to see how the tracking of faces looked. It was decided that instead of just using the whole body we would only use the face. The idea is to record the face reading the poem and then have a moth stuck inside the mouth, this last one would move according to the mouth. It is true that the moth will be forever trapped in Virginias words forever and why not... our own voice. (That moth that once was declared to be death is to live forever).
POSSIBILITIES
- Light and darkness, shadows in between. (In case of recording body movement)
- Fear.
- A continuos dance between both subjects. (A play inside the mouth of the reader)
- Use of textures in the face and the whole environment
WHAT WILL WE NEED?
- 2 hours to record.
- Clip Micrphone
- Printed Essay
- Essay Timed (10 minutes)