The Installation

The Silent Witnesses: video installation from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The virtual space is created through CCTV images, sound and doors.

These videos are all the existing facts in the world, this world under the global food security policy. They are the representation of the surreal reality. There is no specific story to be told in each video, every video includes many aspects of the food security at the same time. But the hidden stories might be found, when you look at multiple videos at the same time, and different combination tells different stories in your mind.

The design reflects panopticon architecture and surveillance. Other than panopticon, as the visitor plays the observer in the central tower, he/she observes him/herself observing what he/she observes.

If you are interested about this project, you could download my thesis for more detail technical and theoretical documentation.

Credits

Actor(Alphabetical): David Black, Effrosyni Kontogeorgou, Nagehan Kurali, Yaroslav Sheptykin, Berit Slinwinski, Aneta Takhtamysheva, Gauvain Wiemer

Audio Recording: Vinicius Giusti

The Making of

The making of the virtual staged videos.

The Silent Witnesse: the making of from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The process of post production lasted 45 days of almost double-full time working. The standard procedure of these virtual-staged videos are: keying out color, creating shadow, lay in the virtual backgrounds, and final adjustments. The most time consuming part is to create the shadow, meaning tracing the part of actors' bodies that touch the ground, frame by frame.

FYI, the food in the banquet scenario are virtual, the food-dumping scenario is a part of a found footage, so, no food were wasted in this project.

Scenarios

The Silent Witnesses: Banquet scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Crops storehouse scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Factory scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Farmer scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Food dumping scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Grocery shop scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: Hospital Scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

The Silent Witnesses: TV scenario from Chi-chun Chang on Vimeo.

and one of the scenario that is missing here, is the real-time capture image of the visitor looking at him/herself looking at the films.

Filming in the Bluebox Studio

The filming took place on 6th May afternoon in the bluebox studio in HfK Bremen. It took 5 hours to be done! (While the post production took 45 days...)