The 5th floor Living Room of the Halifax Central Library provided the stage for Depths of Sorrow, with the sound score heard via speakers in the front courtyard.
This abstract narrative
retells a story of courage and the ensuing darkness that overtook the passengers
and crew on that fateful night. A fictional
passenger embarks on her journey across the ocean on a vessel deemed unsinkable.
Set amongst hand-drawn images and animations based on archival photographs of
the ship’s interior and exterior, the character’s video image moves and dances
as she experiences the initial hopes of her exciting journey through to her
final horrifying moments in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic.
Live dance performance
captured by infrared camera infuse the imagery with ghostly figures through real-time
video processing. The immersive sound score includes nostalgic musical elements
of the era as well as a Morse Code Fugue while underwater imagery pulls us
down to the final resting place and into the Depths of Sorrow.
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