Dan Light

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Move Fast and Break Things

Freight Theatre · August 2022

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Two performers film a table of sand and tiny models, the live shot of a miniature landscape projected on the screen behind.

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Video Design for Move Fast And Break Things in Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe. Performers use a live camcorder and miniature puppetry to tell the story of Google's creation and the beginning of users' search data as a product.

A large blue-lit screen shows a live-filmed miniature room with a tiny figure in a chair, performers operating cameras in the dark below.
A model room with two curtained windows, a live close-up of a child's eyes projected to fill one window beside a tiny seated figure.
A performer sits on a chair in profile, a large screen behind showing a live security-camera shot of a figure with a rucksack in a corridor.
A performer leans over a tray of sand and a tiny tree, a warm live close-up of hands shaping the sand projected on the blinds behind.
A blue model-house facade with curtained windows and blinds, a glowing hand reaching through a gap toward a small lamp.
A performer points at a tray of sand mounds while another films from below, the live shadowy hand-and-sand image projected on the blinds.
Two live projected panels show a profile face and a giant hand on a yellow floor, performers tending a small lit water tank below.

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