Elevated Jam

  Elevated Jam

http://vimeo.com/67594577

2012

HD, single channel video on screen

Duration 01:35 min

-filmed at Suvilahti, Helsinki

Performer Son Pham

 

The video was filmed in the industrial setting of Suvilahti a former energy production area in Sörnäinen, Helsinki. It encompasses nine buildings and two large gasometers.

The idea was to explore the given architecture in an unusual visual and acoustic way.

I was cooperating with three members of the German progressive metal band TrueFalse

that visited me for two weeks and put their musical expertise to practice.

In Elevated Jam, the protagonist Son Pham is drumming on the steel hull of a giant gas clock. During the play he slowly elevates upwards and with the ascent also the acoustic properties of the building start to change. Reaching the top not only the scenery widens up to us but also the perception of the architecture as such.