Fred HattUSA
FRED HATT (film). Music by Don Fiorino (guitar) and Andy Haas (sax, drum machines, electronics) from the album of the same name
Title of Piece: AMERICAN NOCTURNE
Duration: 3m 26s
Short Description
A tree has branches reaching into the sky, and unseen roots reaching into the earth. Imagine our world has a hidden underside, where everything is opposite, all upside down, where darkness glows and time runs in reverse. The shamanic journey is to enter this Underworld, to encounter spirits and plant the seeds of healing. In this film we take a stroll in New York City’s Times Square, that gem of consumerist excess, through a dark mirror, an Alternate Space.
Curatorial Note
In the space of time square that gives a feel of high screen technological realm, the work seems to capture people in the negative film roll and look at them against the digital screen. It probes to think how it would be to see things and people inverted. Essentially how the image is projected in the eyes is the inverted version of the same in the back of our eyes which the brain then further makes it upright. What if the inward journey reveals the dark, underside, shamanic of our being? The work stands in the genre of sci-fi that we do not see as how we sense and perceive things, but nonetheless it elucidates the curiosity of a parallel world co-existing and mirroring our dimension. To this experiment it leaves behind a thought that in this way of projecting things the difference between people diminishes, what remained was a collective sense. The sense can be potent to reflect the futility of differences we perceive in our minds.
Biography
Fred Hatt
Fred Hatt is a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer based in New York City for over 30 years. He often collaborates with dancers or performers, making dance for camera, shadow play, painting as performance, and other combinations of visual media and live performance. Fred Hatt’s work is about moving and perceiving, the process of practice and the seeking of magic.