Perfect Love, Perfect Selfishness

Date
2011
Authors
Manalo, Gizelle
Supervisor
Denton, Andrew
Bennett, Greggory
Item type
Thesis
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Master of Art and Design
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract

Perfect Love, Perfect Selfishness is a short digital film that explores as its subject the enmity that can grow within a disintegrating co-dependent relationship, which is represented by gestural movements derived from dance improvisation.

Perfect Love, Perfect Selfishness narrative is inspired by the concept of co-dependency and the project investigates and experiments with visual language to represent the emotional and psychological trauma that consumes the union of the film’s protagonists .. It is heavily influenced by the theme of expressionism and its aesthetics which is subjectively defined in relation to this project and is informed by the work of expressionist animator Chris Landreth and surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer. Perfect Love, Perfect Selfishness work process is supported by the methodology of Pina Bausch and Martha Graham’s Lamentation (1930) which developed a collaborative workshop environment.

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Co-dependency , Dance improvisation , Martha Graham , Expressionism , Pina Bausch , Improvisation , Sheets , Dance , Film , Experimental , Chris Landreth
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