Single release on January 22, 2021 Sébastien Guérive – Omega II [Omega Point] Choose your preferred music service: https://bit.ly/3o6yyQk BANDCAMP https://bit.ly/363Grzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFbY8wJeJU0&feature=youtu.be Omega II Music by Sébastien Guérive Omega II is a track from Sebastien Guerive’s upcoming album Omega Point. The duration of the track is 5 minutes and 13 seconds and has an accompanying experimental music video. We combined several techniques to bring to life the meaning of the music. The use of continuous rhythmic cycles illustrates birth and the continuous movements of life as well as adding textures to the music. In order to create the image birth and the perpetual motions of life that follow it, the film begins with a lone professional dancer, stark against a dark background, birth. Then, we used post-production effects to multiply her movements, the motions. These sequences represent the past, the present and the future, the cycle of life, creatures continually being born and dying. Macro shots on the moving dancer’s skin mimic an insect ready to emerge from its chrysalis. The camera transforms the visual experience in a sensory experience. In erasing the body contours of the filmed subject, we were able to creates new visible shapes, lines, textures and sensations. This piece of art sets out to capture through film the sensitive and pure nature of movement; exploring both free and mechanical movement. The camera does not follow the dancer, rather remains stationary as the dancer’s movements create life within the frame. The imagery of birth is continued by inter-cutting shots of the dancer with shots of butterflies hatching from their chrysalis’ – a rare phenomenon to capture on film, especially in nature. To achieve this, we filmed the metamorphosis of the caterpillars in a small light box. The butterflies hatched early in the morning (between 6 and 8am), approximately 2 weeks after the caterpillars had created their chrysalises. They were filmed against a black background. The chrysalises were hooked by their silk thread to a flowering branch. Lit by LED tubes, using the colors red, yellow and blue, in addition, a little 24 Watts projector was used. The colors carry through the piece, tying it together, whether it is from the light or the clothes’ color. To visualize the layers of the music, we worked on a series of macro photos which we edited in throughout the track as ‘glitches’. The photos are visually independent of the video but are compatible with the dancer’s movements. To capture these varied images, we had to travel to a number of different locations (cities and forests alike). The process was complicated as in editing we had to align the central focus of each photograph in order to create fluidity in the transition between each of the 25 images that appeared per second. Our society is made up of individuals, all distinct from one another, and each with their own subjectivity. The animal kingdom is no different. Perhaps, in accepting our similarities to other creatures we can learn to stop viewing ourselves as superior to other life on earth. In doing so we may learn ways to better ourselves and our society to create a future beneficial to each of us. Insects may seem so far removed from us but in observing them we would be able to identify something akin to our cultures. FESTIVALS: -Finalist Florence Film Awards -Award winner Indie Short Fest Los Angeles -Official selection Experimental, Dance & Music Toronto -Finalist Oniros Film Awards New York -Award winner HOLLYWOOD Gold Awards -Semi-Finalist 2020 IMVA London -Official Selection Brussels independent film festival Director : Thomas Blanchard Dancer : Alice Regnouf Production : Sébastien Guérive Special thanks to : Mélanie Combaud Annick & Michel Guérive Lou Guérive Gérard Boucard François Le Berre Denis Peltier Eddy Hupin Myriam Boubekeur https://bit.ly/2LTgDiM https://bit.ly/1Ak2Xej