Feel Melancholia 3.55 min 2008

FEEL SERIES, Melancholia, is part of a cinematic study exploring four emotional states. The series will become four, three minute films emerging from an established Art/Science research collaboration between emotion neuroscientist Dr Hugo Critchley, clinical hypnotist, David Oakley and artist Tina Gonsalves. Melancholia is the first from the series.

Context
Emotions are part of our everyday. Over the last ten years the artist has explored the intimacies and vulnerabilities of human emotions through video, wearable technology, and interactivity and installation.

The film uses hypnosis to create an emotionally potent sound track that
becomes the foundation to each film. Under hypnosis, the artist is asked to re-experience potent emotional memories of her life. Using photography, digital and found video, the aim is to evocatively recreate/re-imagine these memories through moving image and sound. Through effects and edits the artist translates the emotional resonance of the event, with the re-enactment being somewhat more evocative, whimsical and poetic than the lived event. The memory becomes more amplified through colour, space and texture.