Hannah Beadman - Accident (2013)
'Accident' is a film of 18 dreams after spinal surgery. It explores non-diegetic diegesis, or the non-linear, metaphoric narratives of the subconscious linked to the body. Chance, fate, luck, free will and their convergences on a personal and societal level, show consciousnesses as states of becoming. Mindsets are destabilised within transition, forming and changing; interior becomes exteriorised.
This film, as a state between waking and sleeping, is shot primarily on HDV as a theoretical choice. HDV was the medium between the end of analogue film and the beginning of HD. (HD/ 16x9 has been cited within the technological ideology of the Bush era's "shock and awe", advancement of video games, drones, etc. Jean-Louis Comolli links technology and ideology in 'Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field', 1971, Cahiers du Cinema).
'Accident', as spectatorially cinematic, collapses reality with dream/ Dream. The Los Angeles opening scene references Hollywood cinema from a post-modern perspective, with the film continuing through different genres and film histories, including Goddard, Structuralism, the "gaze", etc., so cinematography is scene-specific. Sometimes sound takes precedence over image. Fragmented narratives weave through different times, locations and spaces, with the motion of vehicle as change, transience, the dream-body of the spectator-participant.
Sometimes green-screen is used, to juxtapose points of escape or fantasy with societal constructs and claustrophobias-as-the-city. Nature is offered not as Sublime, but as a mystical site connecting all with Self, (in an 'indigenous' sense), to co-create with chance and the unknown.
Links to other works and screenings can be found on my website:
www.hannahbeadman.blogspot.com
This film, as a state between waking and sleeping, is shot primarily on HDV as a theoretical choice. HDV was the medium between the end of analogue film and the beginning of HD. (HD/ 16x9 has been cited within the technological ideology of the Bush era's "shock and awe", advancement of video games, drones, etc. Jean-Louis Comolli links technology and ideology in 'Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field', 1971, Cahiers du Cinema).
'Accident', as spectatorially cinematic, collapses reality with dream/ Dream. The Los Angeles opening scene references Hollywood cinema from a post-modern perspective, with the film continuing through different genres and film histories, including Goddard, Structuralism, the "gaze", etc., so cinematography is scene-specific. Sometimes sound takes precedence over image. Fragmented narratives weave through different times, locations and spaces, with the motion of vehicle as change, transience, the dream-body of the spectator-participant.
Sometimes green-screen is used, to juxtapose points of escape or fantasy with societal constructs and claustrophobias-as-the-city. Nature is offered not as Sublime, but as a mystical site connecting all with Self, (in an 'indigenous' sense), to co-create with chance and the unknown.
Links to other works and screenings can be found on my website:
www.hannahbeadman.blogspot.com
Director
Hannah Beadman/ Los Angeles Director: Mason Jar
Producer
Hannah Beadman
Writer
Hannah Beadman
Cinematographer
Hannah Beadman/ Los Angeles Camera: Mason Jar
Editor
Hannah Beadman
Crew
Assistant Director, Canada Scene: Luke Franklin
Casting, Eric Northman Scene, Rebecca Grace
Casting, Hopi Land Scene, Treasa O’Brien
Locations: Caroline Pena Bray, Jane Beadman, Diana Rhodes, Pierre Governeur, Lucy Johnston
Opening Credits Sound Stinger Composer: ’Shadowlands Stinger With Hawaiian Slide Guitar’, by Brian Thomas Curtin, Eaglestone Music (BMI), Commercial Rights Obtained.
Casting, Eric Northman Scene, Rebecca Grace
Casting, Hopi Land Scene, Treasa O’Brien
Locations: Caroline Pena Bray, Jane Beadman, Diana Rhodes, Pierre Governeur, Lucy Johnston
Opening Credits Sound Stinger Composer: ’Shadowlands Stinger With Hawaiian Slide Guitar’, by Brian Thomas Curtin, Eaglestone Music (BMI), Commercial Rights Obtained.
Length
35:00
Released
21 June 2013
Genre
Country
Edition
Screenings
Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Vibe Gallery, Boundless, (Southwark Arts Council), London, 2013
Vibe Gallery, Boundless, (Southwark Arts Council), London, 2013
