Commissioned by Barbican x The Smalls for their «Inside out» short film series, «True Sound Facade» is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self. It stars Kino McHugh, dancing with and against a colourful animated environment born out of her movements.
By combining live-action and animation, the film becomes a celebration of how our inner and outer lives merge with each other playfully in the act of artistic creation.
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https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen/inside-out-shorts-true-sound-facade-by-laura-nasir-tamara
Can you introduce your film?
True Sound Façade is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real-world self. It stars Kino McHugh, dancing with and against a colourful animated environment born out of her movements. It’s an exploration of our multiplied, curated and fragmented identities, finding the ‘true sound’ of the self behind the projected ‘façade’.
By combining live-action and animation, the film becomes a celebration of how our inner and outer lives merge with each other playfully in the act of artistic creation.
The commission was originally part of Inside Out, a season exploring our inner lives and creativity and how art can help us better understand ourselves and empathise with others’ experience of the world. How did your film respond to these ideas?
True Sound Façade responds to the theme by taking inspiration from the Japanese notions of Honne – literally translated as ‘true sound’, one’s true desires and feelings, and ‘Tatemae’ the ‘façade’, the behaviour one displays in public society. The gap that can exist between both private and public self is here expressed as a meditation and a reconciliation. For an artist, curating and presenting is part of the process, thus blurring boundaries between our inner lives and how they shape the art we put out.