Leighton Pierce White Ash (2014)

WHITE ASH is an inexorable dive into edges of consciousness. While grounded in recognizable images and sounds captured from reality, WHITE ASH is designed to scrape through the patina of normal perception, leading to an embodied associational statesomething to the side of narratives and perceptions. Pierce meticulously weaves the warp and weft of image and sound leading the viewer into a conscious meditative state. Shooting and then animating thousands of moving camera, handheld, long exposure, digital still photographs into articulations of real spaces and events, Pierce rearticulates and recontextualizes the video by applying the lever of a judiciously and intentionally composed musiqueconcrète soundtrack. Limbic Resonance. Subjective Cinema. ObjectFree Cinema. Haptic Cinema. Sound Cinema. Endocrine Cinema. Kinoaesthetic Cinema i. e. Kinobody. Cinema of Taste. Noise as the tool to all of above. Not noise alone. Noise means. Sound NoiseImage NoiseSensory noiseImagination noise, Noise of Memory