Reflection // Process

Film_31st August_Shower

This film is of the action/movement of showering through the lens of the shower's glass partition.

Film_31st August_Pre-shower

Once again the composition is the same as before, I wanted to focus on the sound of my pre-shower rituals. The camera is siting on the outside of the shower, pressed against the glass partition between bathroom and shower. The idea is to use the products at the lens through which the bathroom, or actions within the bathroom, are perceived. The visuals of the film become more effective during the act of showering when the heat, steam and water collide with the glass.

Film_31st August_Cleaning the bath

 

The composition of this film is the same as cleaning the shower, but is more focused on the sound. 

Film_31st August_Cleaning the shower

Film_23rd August_11.48pm

Film_23rd August_3.31pm_Post-shower

Film_23rd August_3.31pm_Shower

Film_23rd August_3.31pm_Pre-shower

Film_21st August_1.36pm_Post-shower

Film_21st August_1.36pm_Shower

Film_21st August_1.36pm_Pre-shower

Film_21st August_1.36pm_Hair washing

Film_18th August_3.24pm

 

Once again documenting the drying, moisturizing process. This was straight after my bath.

Film_18th August_2.57pm

This film is of me having a bath. It is not particularly visually exciting but the sound qualities vary dramatically from the films of myself having a shower.

The bath is the more relaxing, time-to-think, not on-the-go convenience of the two and this is portrayed nicely through sound. The bath is quite a silent place, where one can sit down, lie down and relax. The shower is a loud place, where one has to be alert and standing and it's not so easy to get lost in one's own thoughts.

There are a few moments in the video - 14mins long [also reinforcing my want to stay in here longer] - where the sound doesn't equal the flowing movements within the bath. For example, turning around in the bath makes loud suctions sounds, and the noise of myself scratching in the bath creates a slapping sensation.

Film_18th August_2.46pm

This film looks at setting up the bathroom before my bath and getting ready to hop into the bath after it's run. My body is represented in the tiles beyond the bath tap, however once the bath has been running for a while and the steam has started to cover the tiles, my body is only slightly visible through the tap.

It is interesting in relation to the mirror in the bathroom that most features of the bathroom are made from a mirrored or reflective surface; heavily glossed floor and wall tiles, chrome taps, faucets and handles, glass partitions and ceramic products.

Film_17th August_7.39pm. Part 3

This is the 3rd installment of the showering film. Continuing on with the same focus of the shower glass - this installment, like Part 1, would be quite ambiguous again with the sound probably being quite unfamiliar to most listeners. The shadow of my body performing movements/actions/routines/rituals is projected onto the shower wall. This film looks at the drying/moisturizing/in-between post-shower actions.

The sound and visuals, if you did not know it was the bathroom, might not be clear.

Film_17th August_7.39pm. Part 2

Film_17th August_7.39pm. Part 1

Pre-shower film again - having to divide the full pre-shower through to post-shower into separate films for uploading reasons - this installment is purely looking into the post-shower action/movement/routine/ritual sound.

I decided to focus on the shower for the backdrop - originally being one film, it would be quite ambiguous to begin with and gradually it would become clear that it was the shower. Projecting the visuals of the shower - through the product we shower in, shows the disconnection between the space and the action the space is meant to contain.

- Containment.

Film_17th August_9.33am

This is the film I couldn't upload. I think perhaps they have to be under a certain size/length. Anyway I uploaded it through my youtube, and it's only viewable to people who have the url. It observes the actions of brushing my hair in the morning - or wrestling the bird's nest, moisturizing my face, brushing my teeth and finally cleaning up the messy sink that I share with my younger sister.

_Morning routine + cleaning