VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:
Wear headphones or surround yourself with a quality sound system. Some of the good parts are really quiet.
Expand to full screen mode (hover your cursor over the lower right corner of the video viewer). You’ll see more of the film and less of everything else.
Best to watch on a screen larger than a phone
Minimize distractions. You will be posed with choices, which will sometimes wait for you before the film continues but will sometimes make a decision if you don’t. You’ll have about 10 seconds. First thought, best thought.
Once you start the film experience, you cannot pause, rewind, or exit-then-return. Just like live performance… but at the Met. Once you leave, they won’t let you back in until the second act. And there is no second act here. Yet.
If your screen freezes and/or goes black, try a different browser. Anecdotal evidence suggest that Chrome works better than Firefox, that Safari works better than Chrome, that Firefox works better than Safari. We don’t know why this happens, but it’s as good as it gets, for now.
Interview: Fjord Review
CREDITS
Direction/concept/choreography: Belinda McGuire
Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven and Nils Frahm
Directors of Photography: Derrick Belcham and Belinda McGuire
Performer: Belinda McGuire
Premiere: March 2021
Length: it depends…
About the Work: This is an interactive dance film. It is comprised of a multitude of film segments, but re-created with each new view as the viewer navigates their own unique way through their own unique version of the film. This project is my way to continue dancing, choreographing and performing “live” during the pandemic. I am the performer, choreographer co-director of photography (all but one scene are filmed by me) and editor.
“Order in the Eye of the Beholder” explores the notion of the variable nature of perception, the emergence, disappearance and transformation of logic, the difference between belonging to and belonging in, between interior and exterior perception, and movement patterns as they relate to identity.
Order is in the eye of the beholder… beauty is in the eye of the beholder… greatness is in the eye of the beholder. We behold others, we are beheld by others, we behold ourselves. Mystery, idolatry, and misunderstanding can easily arise as a result of misalignments of those three tiers. Time affords us a kind of distance which allows a kind of external self-view. Time does for our self-view what distance does for others’ views of us. We can only ever see more or less, we will never see the whole picture, I’m not even sure if there is a whole picture to be seen.
