Take My Shoes version#2 : Raewyn Turner 2012
Experimental Documentary
Duration 12.25 minutes
Protected by anonymity a senior police officer talks freely about the changing aspects of violence in New Zealand.
The work explores knitting together an intarsia of written and aural fragments of topical issues and their relationship to news media. The audio orientation of the work relates to the topical and often confrontational territory inhabited by talk back radio.
A graphical programming environment for video and audio manipulation was used to digitally activate the text via the narrator's gestures.
In a monologue towards understanding the increase in violent offencses, intimidation, abuse, threats and the high rate of domestic violence in New Zealand, a senior ex-police officer talks about contributing factors. His concerns echo the community's fears with reference to inequity and violence in a small paradise. Protected by anonymity the police officer talks freely about the changing aspects of violence in New Zealand; his secret identity indicates the fragility of a community where police protection of individuals and themselves may only further violence.
Recorded, manipulated and edited by Raewyn Turner.
Voice and Hands: Anonymous senior Police Officer
Sound Chord : Eddie Rayner
Take My Shoes version#1
Experimental Documentary
Duration 13.10 mins
A graphical programming environment for video and audio manipulation was used to digitally activate the text via the narrator's gestures and voice.
In a monologue towards understanding the increase in violent offenses, intimidation, abuse, threats and the high rate of domestic violence in New Zealand, a senior ex-police officer talks about contributing factors. His concerns echo the community's fears with reference to inequity and violence in a small paradise. Protected by anonymity the police officer talks freely about the changing aspects of violence in New Zealand; his secret identity indicates the fragility of a community where police protection of individuals and themselves may only further violence.
Woven into the text are fragments from the World News along with an imaginative account of early European settlement of NZ and grandmother's stories glimpsed through contemporary eyes. The settlers’ journey and subsequent description of the city skyline visualizes how the secret folds of the newly created city and environs contribute to the citizens concerns. The settlers cut down the trees and expose bare hills which echo their words.
Recorded, manipulated and edited by Raewyn Turner.
Voice and Hands: Anonymous senior Police Officer
Sound Chord : Eddie Rayner
World News, Retrieved from internet 31.01.08 (http://www.infoplease.com/world/events/news
Take My Shoes --first version-- 2009
Experimental Documentary duration 1.33. (4x3 VIDEO). Dolby Stereo A05.26
Synopsis: Take My Shoes refers to the gesture of gifting one’s shoes so that others may walk in them . The police officer, cast as the guardian of the general public, talks about attitudes and factors that seem to be contributing to violent offences in New Zealand. Inequities and violent offences are knitted together with distant world events that span the time period between 2001 and 2008.
Could we create a concept of basic human dignity that values and respects variable individuals, takes into account feelings of honour and humiliation, and recognizes the shame of poverty as well as the shame of wealth in our egalitarian, consumer society?
The video was created using Isadora, a graphical programming environment, and edited in Final Cut Pro.
World News, Retreived from internet 31.1.08 (http://www.infoplease.com/world/events/news)