Night Walk for Edinburgh; 2019; Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Here is short clip from our new piece commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery. Viewers are given a smart phone and headphones and asked to follow the prerecorded video through the streets of the city. Wear headphones to get the full effect of the original binaural recording.
This is a 3 minute excerpt from a 55 minute piece.
Credits for this clip are:
Production: Samantha Woods
Dancers and Choreography: Joel Brown and Eve Mutso
Poetry Excerpt: Norman MacCaig
Photograph: Patrick Geddes, Children in Tron Square, c.1889. Courtesy University of Edinburgh Special Collections
Music:
Percussion on pipes performed by Adam Clifford
tanz, tanz (2010) for solo violin, Composed by Reiko Füting, Published by Abundant Silence.
Performed by Daniel Pioro.
Guitar Ambiance (2019), George Bures Miller.

[@hollybazley5149]

Love this! It's like a video game story

[@cpp12300]

Gorgeous recording -- hardly a surprise, considering the source. It's fascinating how difficult it is to divide one's attention between the image on the phone's screen and the world around that screen -- which is also being seen on a screen, in this video. So the piece is two pieces: the experience of walking through Edinburgh with eyes trained on the phone's screen, and the experience of seeing/hearing that experience unfold, further mediated by one's own device. Meanwhile, what world surrounds this video's viewer?

[@moanjomba1631]

Beautiful!!

[@Angie-jd5yu]

I love them!!

[@Kovapele]

Terrific!

[@PPEnVivo]

Great job!

[@whitesimurgh6363]

Wtf is that effect mate..

[@ninafiction142]

Very disappointing

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Your comment is, anyway ...

[@sarahgreen8988]

What a frustrating film. A muddle of photography, dance, split screen, to what purpose?Couldn’t concentrate on any image properly...pointless.