"Portbou" is an art video piece made in 2016 in summer in the border town in Catalonia, and is a vision of Portbou captured in random details of nature, cemetery and Walter Benjamin memorial and discloses a tension between closeness and fragmented representation of reality.
“Portbou” was filmed in a special way and is a visual expression of the dialogue between two filming performers. It is an important part of our project "Haptic/Visual Identities" to develop a filming apparatus which generates possibilities of interesting, uncommon ways of communication in collaborative filming. Creation of connection between two performers happens because of physical limits of the prototype we use. It has four cameras attached with one meter long cables to the Raspberry Pi, so the performers have to film in synchrony and close proximity to each other. Practically this means: we walk and move at the same pace and in the same general direction. That is how this video was created.
“Portbou” was filmed in a special way and is a visual expression of the dialogue between two filming performers. It is an important part of our project "Haptic/Visual Identities" to develop a filming apparatus which generates possibilities of interesting, uncommon ways of communication in collaborative filming. Creation of connection between two performers happens because of physical limits of the prototype we use. It has four cameras attached with one meter long cables to the Raspberry Pi, so the performers have to film in synchrony and close proximity to each other. Practically this means: we walk and move at the same pace and in the same general direction. That is how this video was created.