Spy @ F5
Since its conception in 2009, Motiongrapher’s F5 festival aimed to design a conference that not only inspires but creates an environment where people can experience a collision of the minds. Pushing to change perspectives and explore new horizons, F5 structures its self on two days of presentations and performances, with the intent to enlighten, entertain and stimulate the senses.
This year’s festival went further and bigger than ever before. Held in New York and adapting the theme of “Happy F5”, the festival celebrated its birthday and those precious moments when we uncover something truly unexpected.
Two of Spy’s directors were amongst the few invited to speak at the event, held this past weekend.
Evan Silver, one of Spy’s newest directors, graced the stage on Friday and spoke about his approach to directing and the importance of searching for the emotions inherent in the story.
“Without relating a story to the viewer in an emotional way, they can never really connect with the piece or care about any of the characters. The story becomes one dimensional or all technique and no heart.” – Evan Silver
F5 screened the MTV’s Skins promo spot, directed by Silver this past year. Silver then related the spot to the some of the emotions and themes used to relate to teens, such as “love and jealousy, anger and teen angst, feeling controlled, and breaking free to become your own person”.
On Saturday, the festival welcomed acclaimed interactive directing duo Radical Friend to speak. Radical Friend, comprised of Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian, spoke to the festival attendees about creating a religious experience with technology, spending time communicating your idea through writing, and mythologizing moments, as exemplified in Ambling Alp’s video they directed for Yeasayer. They went on to present their interactive video installation and performance piece, “The Digital Flesh”. The project was developed as a study for their upcoming film “To The Sirens”.
Jaron Albertin shoots for the Stars
Directed by Jaron Albertin, the clip begins with a man giving a speech about how “65 percent of the world say they no longer believe in a religious faith,” and how modernity has rejected the existence of a god.
Combining a heavy organ tone with a beating-heart bass line, Stars create a surreal backdrop for a nude girl running through Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre.
“This video is based around the idea of changes that we feel deeply and personally, but which also seem to bear the weight of the world,” she adds. “The dancer’s changes are strange and otherworldly. We watch as change is forced upon her, and how she learns to live through it, as fate demands.”
Source – Spinner
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