This is a work of intuition, iteration and collaboration. I have been inspired by screendance, a genre that combines choreography and cinema. The footage was left on my camera from a test shoot for another project, which I wanted to develop into a short film. I showed it to the composer Vogel Ray and asked for a composition that would express “barrier, longing, attempting but unable to touch each other, a universe where things seem to repeat itself from a different angle.” After Ray sent back the revised soundtrack, I used it as the matrix to introduce rhythms into the visual image. I experimented with repetition, speed and color. The narrative of an off-sync mirror and a portal of touch arose throughout the editing process. The final scene concludes this journey of dance and alludes to the joining of two worlds.
