chorus (2014)
Video and Sound: Utsa Hazarika
Filmed in Thimpu, Bhutan
chorus experiments with the ways in which video can represent its subject, by multiplying, refracting and re-contextualising the original footage. The film opens with the original scene multiplying, repeating the same image; when the images are shuffled, they return relative to each other. People now walk into and out of the boxes.
Filmed from inside the Hotel Druk, in Thimpu, Bhutan, the footage shows a children’s fair in the city’s Clocktower Square. The entire soundtrack is composed from the sounds of the fair, with the bouncy castle on the left providing its beat. The score in the second part of the film is provided by speeding up the original soundtrack, leaving an impression that although the same things are being seen and heard, they are now done so in different ways.
The narrative is driven through the ‘elements’ constructing the scene – space, sound, linear time. The title of the project comes from the idea of these elements or ‘voices’ striking the same note, in the way that they come together to create the original, expected, scene of the single window looking out onto the square. When the soundtrack from this original scene – fairground music, the bouncy castle, children screaming – is sped up, however, it disrupts the other elements, which fall into place in new, unexpected combinations.
Filmed from inside the Hotel Druk, in Thimpu, Bhutan, the footage shows a children’s fair in the city’s Clocktower Square. The entire soundtrack is composed from the sounds of the fair, with the bouncy castle on the left providing its beat. The score in the second part of the film is provided by speeding up the original soundtrack, leaving an impression that although the same things are being seen and heard, they are now done so in different ways.
The narrative is driven through the ‘elements’ constructing the scene – space, sound, linear time. The title of the project comes from the idea of these elements or ‘voices’ striking the same note, in the way that they come together to create the original, expected, scene of the single window looking out onto the square. When the soundtrack from this original scene – fairground music, the bouncy castle, children screaming – is sped up, however, it disrupts the other elements, which fall into place in new, unexpected combinations.
