The Big Big Blue Music Video Musings…..
It will be a conceptual, performance art piece that will work with the theme of Natural Forces.
Issues revolving around questions of identity, and attempts to resolve the
rift between personal experience and the chaos of a larger public world,
provides the internal struggle while the external struggle; the performance of an adult learning to swim, will encapsulate the frailty and vulnerability of the human experience.
Kodachrome colours with a solitary figure silhouetted against the water,
in the water, under the water, so that it is impossible to tell whether the
figure is facing towards or away from the viewer at times, the
conventions of the picture are obvious and the emotional content almost
one-dimensional, but, surprisingly, the work still has the power to move –
perhaps because of the very transparency of its language and the
modesty of its aspirations.
The Band and I are fans of Bastiaan Johan Christiaan “Bas Jan” Ader who
was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and
filmmaker. Ader produced a modest oeuvre that has recently achieved
poignancy through the purposefulness with which the works were
conceived and executed and the simplicity of their presentation gives
them their strength and coherence. Ader when asked to explain the
significance behind the frequent inclusion of ‘falls’ in his work, he simply
replied ‘because gravity overpowers me’.
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Patti (Lyons-Gooderham) Henderson is an innovative Director hosting a steady career in communications and entertainment. Patti's journey has included extensive research into her own genealogy; encouraging her curiosity and passion in finding story and motivation of character.
She started in the world of journalism which took her to multiple countries in a variety of positions, eventually writing, assistant editing and field producing for MUCHMUSIC and MOVIETV. As a fiction Writer, her first feature script BENEATH THE SURFACE, won top prize from Praxis Screenwriters/I.A.T.S.E. script competition.
With a thirst for learning the science of Film and TV making, she has worked for a multitude of productions in the capacity of Script Supervisor including RV, EIGHT BELOW, A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, FRINGE, LOST IN SPACE, XFILES to name a few and as an Editor for shorts, TV series and Features. Her growth in the industry continues with the addition of working in VFX, on and off set.
Patti has been a maverick in filmmaking. With the support of Sony Canada, National Film Board of Canada and BC Film, she spearheaded and directed UP THE WALL that was the first new technology (digital video-35mm) project to be shot in Canada in 1997, that included title on picture, VFX and finished in three formats. She has Directed and Co-Produced branding videos, sizzle reels for factual/lifestyle programs, corporates and fundraising videos, as well as 11 projects for the VFS Portfolio Shorts Program. Her work has played at national and international festivals, and aired on various North American Networks. For CBC, she Directed and Edited SALMON ENCHANTED EVENING which, after being selected from over 350 scripts, was produced and nominated for seven LEO FILM AWARDS winning best editor and best sound design.
Patti is an Alumnae of WOMEN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR (WIDC), which chooses 8 women from across Canada to participate in the program at The Banff Centre each year.
Her focus has, and always will be, storytelling. Her unique upbringing, combined with years of experience in the entertainment industry has helped to shape her into a vibrant Director with the ability, through passion, knowledge and experience, to elevate a wide range of scripts. Her latest work is writing a YA Novella series, with an eye on developing it into a TV series.
She lives and works in the UK and Canada.
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