“Home is…”
Project 2
Artist’s Statement
Hattie
Mallot
https://vimeo.com/142544014
Originally,
I'd wanted to do a piece about the amount of space in a living room throughout
the day, where the living room is empty in the day, but as the residents come
home, gradually gets fuller until they go to sleep, when it is empty once
again. However, as I was filming, I realized that the emptiness or fullness of
a home depends on the perception of the resident. Even if everyone who lives
there is home, the house can still feel empty. For anyone who's hosted their
friends at their house, it's the feeling you get once your guests leave after
having a good time. In this film, rather
than a progression throughout the day, as I’d originally intended, we have the
dichotomy of day and night.
In this film, time passes quickly as the residents are home watching TV
together. The lighting is washed out. Once the residents invite friends over,
the lighting is warm, and time seems to slow down. The shots that once swept
across the living room lazily are now closer and more friendly. We see the way
people fidget, lost in a conversation with their friends. As the evening draws
to a close, the residents and their guests get sleepy, and time seems to stop.
The night becomes dark after everyone leaves, leaving one person asleep on the
couch. Time passes rapidly, and suddenly reality comes back in a hurry, along
with the daylight.
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