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Go Away Heart
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Additional Information
Author: Nora Hutchinson
Date Submitted: May 28, 2009
Additional Credits:
Camera: Peter Svilans
With assistance from: Canada Council
Overview: Color. Opens with artists voice singing lullaby Hush Little Baby. Title, Go Away Heart appears and frame opens to a blurred image of a woman. Only her nose and mouth are visible. The artist begins to recite a poem and shortly the image of woman joins in so that two voices reciting the same poem can be heard out of sync. The camera records the woman at different angles and she is often blurred and distorted in some way. Through the narration the story of a tragic death of a father becomes apparent. Various threads of narration juxtaposed with blurred images of the woman’s face and body create a sense of acute verbal memory partnered with a vague pictorial memory; where recollection is dreamlike but emotional memory is stark and angry. The piece’s tempo changes with a single shot of the woman in a bathroom repeating over and over a sequence of cleansing her face and applying makeup. The cleansing becomes more and more frantic, the application of makeup a way to maintain a face of normalcy in grief. The closing frame looks out a closed window overlooking a street, the narration continues with the artists voice singing the lullaby, Hush Little Baby.
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