Lapsúlyos || Certain Solitude

This experimental film speaks without words, only by the potential of bodily presence of the performers, and the way it’s filmed and edited. The seeds of the work lay in my experiences being in the gym, running on the treadmill, and letting my perception shift, so to notice the beauty and choreography of this space around. From the beginning I was also sure to film not only the choreography of the narrowly conceived workouts, but to let it dissolve into something unusual or useless (inefficient?) - which may already be called as dance. To oscillate between, or to stay on the fine line between "everyday" and "dance" movement. Definitely I was also inspired by the endurance of muscles, the discharges of the body, especially the sweat, and the skin itself in this process. And if skin, well, there's touch as a whole universe. How we touch different material qualities? How do we let ourselves been touched by the material, or by other people? Skin and metal. Warm and cold. In side and outside. A pause. A longing. Certain Solitude.

As a method we combined the "classical" scene list shooting with structured improvisation within the process, inviting collective intuition and real time composition, meaning that the cinematographers are as well part of this composition as the dancers. In the editing process I realized to have a selection process based on two things: one is to use those images which I knew from the beginning to film (actually not all of them is used finally), and the other was to let the material "work on me", meaning to choose moments what stayed with me as image after I've seen the raw material a couple of time. The process of editing is also the combination of pre-set ideas mixed with intuitive choices. After, rhythm. Blindness after a while. Leaving time to settle, revisit. Deadline. Let go.

The title: 'Lapsúlyos' is a Hungarian word, naming the fixed weight machines in the gym.