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UNSEEN: THE LIVES OF LOOKING
TITLE: UNSEEN: THE LIVES OF LOOKING, 90′
DIRECTOR: Dryden Goodwin
WRITER: Dryden Goodwin
PRODUCER: Jo Cole, Sarah Caddy, Gareth Evans
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Gareth Evans
CAMERA, DRAWING, MUSIC AND SOUND: Dryden Goodwin
EDITED BY: Jo Cole, Dryden Goodwin
PRODUCTION MANAGERS: Harriet Masterson, Sukey Richardson
PRODUCTION, CAMERA AND SOUND ASSISTANTS: Brada Barassi, Imram Perretta
SOUND MASTERING: Tony Perretta
RESEARCHERS: Jo Cole, Imram Perretta
KEY CAST: Prof Sir Peng Tee Khaw, Prof Sanjeev Gupta, Rosa Curling
OVERVIEW: Artist Dryden Goodwin’s first feature-length essay film, focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Mixing Goodwin’s closely observed drawings, live action and intricately woven soundtrack, the film explores different scales, forms and reasons for looking, in a poetic and metaphysically charged journey. Revealed through intimate access is the empathy and dexterity of the surgeon working with the fragility of the human eye; the quest of the planetary explorer to decipher the cosmos and find evidence of life on Mars; and the scrutiny of the British government, by the lawyer, in extraordinary rendition, drone attack and mass surveillance cases. Goodwin’s looking and implicit presence links the lives of these probing observers, exposing a kinship between those who live by the sensory rules of observation, a desire to decode in pursuit of knowledge and insight. The film’s perspectives range from the minute details of surgery to panoramic expanses of space. Vignettes of strangers and a brief focus on Goodwin’s father and son, invite us to contemplate the known and the unknown, the personal and the remote. Exposing the imaginative leaps we take to reveal what might be concealed or out of sight, the film considers the physical act of looking and the tools we use to perceive the world around us and how these form our own identities.
LONDON, UK, 2015
- Categories: ART, BIG SMOKE, LONDON, UK