Marta Roberti
KIMI IN TAROKO
Statement
stop motion video, 7:57mins, 2019
I have been invited to take part to a very particular residency in 2019 . I have been living with an aborigenal family in Taroko, (Taiwan). The couplehosting me in their house gave me an aborigenal name: Kimi.
One of the project I developed during this residency was this stop motion video, shooted during a month while I was living in the house of an old aborigenal couple hosting me in the high mountains of the Taroko Valley, in such a small village of fiew old people, called Dali.
Some other families hosted other artists and sometimes I met other artist just walking in the forest.
Like in my first stop motion video (Frames of Water, 2017) my purpose was not to create a documentary, but something poetic and surreal but coming from the editing as a collage of some scenes of everyday life in the Taroko mountains.
I was shooting with the continuos shooting modality many things happening around me: daily life of the old couple working in the fields or in the house, the taroko landscape, a butterfly, the dogs. I was shooting thousands of photographs series. Then I edited as a video collage. Many of the photo series were cutted. The video conceived as a collage is something that it seems to build it self: some series connects directly with others and some series not. I edite the video choosing the pictures series in a way they make a story, which is not a story, but it can look like fluid and taking sense in a poetical way.
There is a couple as a red line appearing in the video. Sometimes the couple are the man and the woman hosting me, sometimes the couple are some tourists walking in the mountains. There is no story to tell, just the idea to take pictures randomly and continuosly to record as a impromptu diary.
It was not easy for me to connect with the aborigenal people, since I could not speak their language and they could not speak mine. One way to connect was to show them all the pictures I was taken during the day. I know I was very weird at their eyes, but they liked to be in my pictures. I was recording many things in their house, and many scenes I did not add to the video, because the video comes out from the the editing and it is like to choose what the video wants for being fluid and poetical.
I have been invited to take part to a very particular residency in 2019 . I have been living with an aborigenal family in Taroko, (Taiwan). The couplehosting me in their house gave me an aborigenal name: Kimi.
One of the project I developed during this residency was this stop motion video, shooted during a month while I was living in the house of an old aborigenal couple hosting me in the high mountains of the Taroko Valley, in such a small village of fiew old people, called Dali.
Some other families hosted other artists and sometimes I met other artist just walking in the forest.
Like in my first stop motion video (Frames of Water, 2017) my purpose was not to create a documentary, but something poetic and surreal but coming from the editing as a collage of some scenes of everyday life in the Taroko mountains.
I was shooting with the continuos shooting modality many things happening around me: daily life of the old couple working in the fields or in the house, the taroko landscape, a butterfly, the dogs. I was shooting thousands of photographs series. Then I edited as a video collage. Many of the photo series were cutted. The video conceived as a collage is something that it seems to build it self: some series connects directly with others and some series not. I edite the video choosing the pictures series in a way they make a story, which is not a story, but it can look like fluid and taking sense in a poetical way.
There is a couple as a red line appearing in the video. Sometimes the couple are the man and the woman hosting me, sometimes the couple are some tourists walking in the mountains. There is no story to tell, just the idea to take pictures randomly and continuosly to record as a impromptu diary.
It was not easy for me to connect with the aborigenal people, since I could not speak their language and they could not speak mine. One way to connect was to show them all the pictures I was taken during the day. I know I was very weird at their eyes, but they liked to be in my pictures. I was recording many things in their house, and many scenes I did not add to the video, because the video comes out from the the editing and it is like to choose what the video wants for being fluid and poetical.
Statement
stop motion video, 7:57mins, 2019
I have been invited to take part to a very particular residency in 2019 . I have been living with an aborigenal family in Taroko, (Taiwan). The couplehosting me in their house gave me an aborigenal name: Kimi.
One of the project I developed during this residency was this stop motion video, shooted during a month while I was living in the house of an old aborigenal couple hosting me in the high mountains of the Taroko Valley, in such a small village of fiew old people, called Dali.
Some other families hosted other artists and sometimes I met other artist just walking in the forest.
Like in my first stop motion video (Frames of Water, 2017) my purpose was not to create a documentary, but something poetic and surreal but coming from the editing as a collage of some scenes of everyday life in the Taroko mountains.
I was shooting with the continuos shooting modality many things happening around me: daily life of the old couple working in the fields or in the house, the taroko landscape, a butterfly, the dogs. I was shooting thousands of photographs series. Then I edited as a video collage. Many of the photo series were cutted. The video conceived as a collage is something that it seems to build it self: some series connects directly with others and some series not. I edite the video choosing the pictures series in a way they make a story, which is not a story, but it can look like fluid and taking sense in a poetical way.
There is a couple as a red line appearing in the video. Sometimes the couple are the man and the woman hosting me, sometimes the couple are some tourists walking in the mountains. There is no story to tell, just the idea to take pictures randomly and continuosly to record as a impromptu diary.
It was not easy for me to connect with the aborigenal people, since I could not speak their language and they could not speak mine. One way to connect was to show them all the pictures I was taken during the day. I know I was very weird at their eyes, but they liked to be in my pictures. I was recording many things in their house, and many scenes I did not add to the video, because the video comes out from the the editing and it is like to choose what the video wants for being fluid and poetical.
I have been invited to take part to a very particular residency in 2019 . I have been living with an aborigenal family in Taroko, (Taiwan). The couplehosting me in their house gave me an aborigenal name: Kimi.
One of the project I developed during this residency was this stop motion video, shooted during a month while I was living in the house of an old aborigenal couple hosting me in the high mountains of the Taroko Valley, in such a small village of fiew old people, called Dali.
Some other families hosted other artists and sometimes I met other artist just walking in the forest.
Like in my first stop motion video (Frames of Water, 2017) my purpose was not to create a documentary, but something poetic and surreal but coming from the editing as a collage of some scenes of everyday life in the Taroko mountains.
I was shooting with the continuos shooting modality many things happening around me: daily life of the old couple working in the fields or in the house, the taroko landscape, a butterfly, the dogs. I was shooting thousands of photographs series. Then I edited as a video collage. Many of the photo series were cutted. The video conceived as a collage is something that it seems to build it self: some series connects directly with others and some series not. I edite the video choosing the pictures series in a way they make a story, which is not a story, but it can look like fluid and taking sense in a poetical way.
There is a couple as a red line appearing in the video. Sometimes the couple are the man and the woman hosting me, sometimes the couple are some tourists walking in the mountains. There is no story to tell, just the idea to take pictures randomly and continuosly to record as a impromptu diary.
It was not easy for me to connect with the aborigenal people, since I could not speak their language and they could not speak mine. One way to connect was to show them all the pictures I was taken during the day. I know I was very weird at their eyes, but they liked to be in my pictures. I was recording many things in their house, and many scenes I did not add to the video, because the video comes out from the the editing and it is like to choose what the video wants for being fluid and poetical.
