You know my name (Pythia)

Step 1. The Journey

 

 

The starting point for the work is how our identity deals with the co-existence, of both a primitive ancient part of our brain and on top of that, a further developed civilized part in the front. To categorises it in the term of the old Greeks, the co-existence of the Apollonian reasonable and logical thinking and its’ contrast, the Dionysian chaos and appealing to the emotions and instincts and how all great tragedies, is based on the tension between these two. Seeking inspiration in previous eras, the ritual in this film has a myth.

 

 

 

 

Title: You know my name (Pythia)
Year: 2014
Category: Web visualisation based on the performance 'Pythia' (and extract from moving image)
Duration: Variable
Materials: 3D image, trophy objects, mask and performance.

Location: Hampstead, London
Photo: Jim Woodall

Animation: Helle Kingbird Bjerregaard

20.03.2014, 43 Marefield Garden, London

Step 2. Preparation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

The photos has a relationship to quite a disparate combination of image-based activities, from formal statue to Vogue to some kind of feminist liberation imagery from the 60s. The way it speaks about time as a series of atomised embalmed moments, the way it quivers on the edge of vibrating movement and complete stillness.

 

 

Title: 'Pythia'
Year: 2014
Category: Web visualisation based on the performance 'Pythia' (and extract from moving image)
Duration: Variable
Materials: 3D image, trophy objects, mask and performance.

Location: Hampstead, London
Photo: Jim Woodall

Animation: Helle Kingbird Bjerregaard

Trophies

Step 3. The question

You put your question, receive your answer and depart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

This myth being interpreted here is Pythia, the name of the priestess’ of the oracle at Delphi. The film is as a journey to Delphi, the construction of the narration is driven by the lack of distinction between being the one asking questions and giving answers. The act of submission passing into the role of the oracle and a re-enacting the plea to gain insight into the forthcoming course of life becomes the same motion.   

The film might rather be a non-film, than a film. A montage, not only as moments in time, but as points in space so saturated that, they become living moments with the essence and aura of celluloid film but travelling and reverberating in many more directions than simply back and forward, transcending time and place.

 

 

Title: You know my name (Pythia)
Year: 2014
Category: Web visualisation based on the performance 'Pythia' (and extract from moving image)
Duration: Variable
Materials: 3D image, trophy objects, mask and performance.

Location: Hampstead, London
Photo: Jim Woodall

Animation: Helle Kingbird Bjerregaard