Coffee screened at EMMEDIA’s Red Rover
Still from "Coffee" HD, 3:54, 2010
Coffee is a short video I shot on the morning after I bought my new HD video camera. It painstakingly chronicles the process my household goes through in making coffee each morning, all so we can get to a quiet moment of connection, however briefly. I’m particularly fond of how this piece capitalizes on the immediacy of video as a medium, having been shot in about 18 minutes, and edited in less than a couple of hours.
EMMEDIA hosted an event in Calgary called Red Rover, which was simultaneously hosted at Paved Arts in Saskatoon, and the two were linked via skype so attendees could interact.
Coffee seemed to connect with the audience when it played. Later I heard from Christine Cook that it infuriated her ’cause she didn’t want all of the gritty detail (which is the point of the thing), while Josh Fraser told me he was nearly moved to tears by it, I think sincerely. Some guy in Saskatoon asked me what format it was shot on, and I told him, HDV, and that left him condescendingly cold as if his knowing that it had a low bit rate had suddenly made it exempt from consideration or discussion.
Kinda cool, full spectrum response.
