A Short Film Shooting on Bernal Hill Needs Your Body

November 3, 11:27 AMSF Movie ExaminerChristopher Smith

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There Will Be People - Photo via: http://www.nextstop.com/

I pulled a bunch of paper off the printer at work yesterday and found something interesting. Seems that someone has got A Big Idea. And they will need your help to make it Real.

San Francisco artist Renee Rhodes is working on a video to be shot atop everyone's favorite dog park, Bernal Hill.

From the flyer:

"Hello! I am a grad student at SFAI and I am gathering a large crowd of people that will interact through movement atop Bernal Heights Park! I hope you will be part of this video.

This video is about community and ways in which the natural world and the human one intersect in strange ways."

Renee has a thing for bodies, moving. Her films have bodies moving through space in an organized yet organic manner - both in real life and computed-generated environments. From the climbing of a tree to the formation of a pinball machine-like "Entropy Machine", Renee films the human form both engaging and being engaged.

Check out this short piece - what sounds like the title to a Boards of Canada song, "Practicing For When We Need Each Other More.




From Renee's website:

Practicing for When We Need Each Other More stemmed from an interest in the complex and choreographic pattern making of starling flocks. The instinctual collective intelligence of animals does not directly translate to human groups so watching people's conscious concentration on collaboration can become very telling of the way human groups function.

To realize this project volunteers, both with and without dance training, met with me weekly for one month to practice improvised group oriented movements. The idea that groups of people may meet up on a regular basis to practice being together is a funny yet strangely rewarding idea.

An introduction/meeting/rehearsal is slated for November 7th or 8th with the additional dates of November 14th and 15th available in case of scheduling issues. The final shoot is November 22nd from 10am - 1pm.

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