The Unimportance of Why - exploring liminal space in narrative gaps

Sara Key

Master in Film & Media, Thesis project, SKH/Stockholm University of the Arts - the Art of Impact 2024 Film as doing philosophy, and the liminal experience explored within the narrative gap of character creation, as a space for pre-reflective thought and attention. Themes of Melancholy and Memory works as architecture for experimenting with spatiality and temporality. With ideas of Film as Poetic Art, I have explored the How and Now in film acting with a tension dependent non-linear script motivated by the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman. What happens with us as filmmakers when we refuse to answer questions? What happens with the spectator when we refuse to give answers? Is there a gap created or are the gaps the magic that happens in between the creation?

liminal space in the narrative gap within character -

who was I?

who did?

what and who is? I?

aj ajaj..

it hurts

why?

why hurts

I cannot hurt as long as I think

I think therefore I am

the research was set inside the genre of Gothic melancholia. the Labyrinth is the mind. the map is blurred, and memory and memorabilia is a foggy game with Life at stake.

exploring the narrative gap within the narrative was a work at set could look like this; putting the actor in a moment with the conditions:

the mental factor- thinking

the inner participation - attending

the motion factors- light flexible, free

the inner quest - what?

This short Film - [her]barium (working title Ogräs)

is a result of a work -

an invitation to re-write and re-author

our relationship to the multiplicity of

stories we live by every day

(Swart, 2013)

Drama....is the most essentially political of the arts, not because of the nature of the subject matter, as is widely supposed today, but because it trains the members of the audience to assess with accuracy the quality of a man´s performance. Does it ring true or sound hollow.

Christopher Fettes , A Peopled Labyrinth. The Histrionic sense. An analysis of the actors´ craft. The Work of Yat Malmgren: An Interpretation.

cinematographer Milja Rossi