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Silent fall – exploration of water • Ladybird

Water moves so quickly that it is impossible for the naked eye to follow a drop of water as it falls.
This was the starting point for the project. My curiosity to see and explore its shape and movements.
I follow drops of water in slow-motion as they break free, fall, and finally reach the water, filming
both above and under the surface of the water.
The video was shot with a high-speed camera with 2000 pictures/frames per second, and are
shown in normal video-speed with 25 pictures per second.
Thus, the soft shape of the water reveals itself in all stages of this movement.
The high-speed camera gave me the idea for another video: An enthusiastic boy with a ladybird on
his finger, and after a while finally the ladybird makes a cumbersome take-off and flies out of the picture.
A high-speed camera captures every flutter of the wings.
This all takes place in a very short time, it is as if the boy is a still photo, while the ladybird moves. Like two
layers of pictures. It creates a magical sense of time that I really like.

Ladybirds are symbols of good fortune, and my wish has been to inspire something hopeful.

The videos is made for projection directly on a bare wall, and was first shown at Kunstbanken at Hamar
in 2006, then at the Photofestival Nordic Light in Kristiansund in Norway summer 2006 and at Art Forum
Berlin with Galleri K october 2006.


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