sea-ing

This film playfully engages with the act of seeing and with every other sense that the phrase might prompt. “sea-ing” takes the viewer through the world of representations (magazine articles, texts and photographs on the topic of aquatic beings, the “sea”) to the world of presentations, where the actual beings (the starfish) light up our eyes and thus present themselves to our senses in their immediacy. The visual rhythms echo the experience of submerging under water: the initial shock to the sensory system, the rush of bodily reactions to the new environment, and then the subsequent calmness and engagement with the new environment. “sea-ing” is a prelude to a future series of photogram films under the same title and theme. It was originally commissioned as a trailer for the Images Festival 2004 in Toronto, Canada.