Tussen mens en meermin

Tussen mens en meermin (Live Home Concert Film)
This is Cloud Sequence's debut Live Home Concert Film: 
'Tussen mens en meermin (somewhere between human and mermaid)'

Filmed and recorded in the Cloud Sequence backyard in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in collaboration with Drip Focus Films.

The film shows a Live musical performance of the electronic musical duo Cloud Sequence, and travels within the digital and live realm to create an atmosphere and mood where immateriality and materiality meet.
The imagery is inspired by Renee Magritte’s painting ‘the collective invention’. The work depicts a surreal creature, a reversed mermaid, that represents his mother that has drowned herself when he was a child. His reality becomes a surreal display for the viewer.
The work is representative for loss and confusion. Is reality imitating surreality, or  is does surrealism imitates reality? A concept and experience that is kneaded with in the music and images of the film. Somewhere between grieve and acceptance, somewhere between human and mermaid.

Concept, music and co direction by Cloud Sequence - Saar Amptmeijer and Jez Conlon.
Directed, edited and video production - Stuart Liddell
Animations, graphics, live VJ - Effy Marie Smith 
Live recording and Mastering - Dave Crowe 

Camera operator A - Steve Pearce
Camera operator B - Will Thomson
Video producer - Stuart Liddell
Nature photography - Steve Pearce
Additional photography - Will Thomson
Robotics Camera and light - Ben Pridmore and Ben Erin

Tracklist: 
1. Roest
2. DnA
3. Poetic interlude/Star Stretched
4. Nasmaak

This film and music has been recorded, created and filmed on Arrernte land. Cloud Sequence and all collaborators acknowledge the Arrernte peoples and their elder past, present and emerging as the traditional owners of this land. Always was, always will be.