But for some people the music of the films becomes overpowering. I do my best to work with the composers so that the music is not too overwhelming. The music is what is going on inside the characters heads, we purposefully drop all speech, all realistic sounds. We see what s going on outside, we hear what happens inside. You talk about space both as the private psychological space of a woman and physical space where the films take place.
Space defines so much about the character, the group, the country and the context.
With the Philip Glass piece I knew it had to take place outdoors in landscape. I ve always been interested in the moving image. In my very first show in New York I showed video and Super 8 film. The major shift I made was due to my frustration with photography, the idea of making objects. I felt I was spending so much of my time writing calligraphy on photographs, I felt trapped in craft.