the thought script

one gap is the pre-reflective mode

before and after a thought or an

action. this is a liminal space, a

room of knowing that you do not

know, 

 

in my search for creating the gap I tried

to impose a manuscript without words

but with an intentional linear narrative.

the actress got a script with sceneries

and a direction for thought for the camera to depict

The Thought Script was a way to create images of thinking within a series of actions. With trying to create an architecture for thought - a framework, where director can direct the actor (as a partner in crime) and the actor can have the time to create, to give birth to thoughts - a script with no dialogue but with actions as a framework for reflection.

The Actions - movement in the room and the scripted thoughts - they where decided beforehand as a direction of thoughts towards an object/ subject. The how was something we worked with during the shooting, a result of the flow between actor and director, actor and camera, actor and room and director and vision.

The Character - the actor was told about the situation; a very open narrative of a linear of events that had happened before "she", her name was Elle, entered the waiting room, and what she expected from the meeting, her Intentions and what will happen in the room.

The Emotions - was a biproduct but not the end goal.

The Thoughts - obviously was the end goal. I wanted to catch and depict the life of thoughts incarnated in body and face.

ROOM  1009


wri/dir/photo Sara Key

Elle - Ann-Sofie Rase

Location Nobis Hotel  Stockholm

thanks to Nobis Hotel and Zena Fialdini