Sanctimonia
Film by Pelagie-May Green and Richard Weston
Richard Weston and Pelagie-May Green’s experimental documentary piece “Sanctimonia” It's premiere was at the “Histories Of Thought” exhibition in Gent.
The film features volunteers who were interviewed about their most vivid memories, but with no recorded vocal response. Instead they are shown thinking and experiencing those memories dissolving into one another. The piece is accompanied by a piano and a harmonica.
The film features volunteers who were interviewed about their most vivid memories, but with no recorded vocal response. Instead they are shown thinking and experiencing those memories dissolving into one another. The piece is accompanied by a piano and a harmonica.
Here, people are shown speechless yet exposed. The film's origins come from the idea that people communicate every day of their life without even having to speak. In that, through the eyes and expressions, they can communicate their feelings without having to utter a single word. People's weight of memory and experience can never be entirely concealed. From merely asking a question, somebody can respond physically immediately, better than any words could ever say. The diversity of people's body language and their visionary recollections is wide ranging, and no single memory or reaction is ever the same. From this stimulus, we captured these reactionary scores as purely as possible and create a piece marking the beauty of natural expression, unforced and uncompromised.
