SIKSYA

 
Directed by Talon McKee Caroline Haydon / http://www.carolinemhaydon.com Dalena Tran / http://dalenatran.tumblr.com Performance by Caroline Haydon Choreography by Caroline Haydon Music by Clem Right / https://soundcloud.com/clemright Editing by Dalena Tran Etc Visuals by Dalena Tran Compositing by Hirad Sab / http://hiradsab.com Dalena Tran Styling by Lloyd Galbraith / http://lloydgalbraith.com Talon McKee Set Design by Talon McKee "Siksya" examines the primordial self in a modern world characterized by its uses of innovative texture compositing and butoh: a defiant dance form born of post-WWII Japan that is often characterized by crude physical gestures and absurd environments. Performed by Caroline Haydon, "Siksya" is about a woman made of clay who lives inside a sterile environment constructed to protect her from a complex world with complex narratives. Upon observing herself, she realizes that the presence of life begets the duality of annilhation. This slow tension of existing and, yet, disappearing marks the contention of remaining in the confines of safety for preservation or risking security to embark in the potential of life. "Siksya" is influenced by the modern individual's power to disassociate from personal and global suffering by existing within a vacuum and yet still suffer from the nuances of alienation.

A glitchy and mesmerizingly slow Butoh dance film set to the music of Clem Right, Siksya depicts the journey of a woman living in a stark and sterile environment and the moment in which she realizes that she is ‘disappearing,’ and losing her ability to ‘feel.’ She is then faced with the choice of either re-discovering her sensory experience and facing her reality, or remaining in her illusions and fading into the cold environment she exists within.

Siksya was created in collaboration with VFX and glitch artists Hirad Sab & Dalena Tran, with set design by Talon McKee. The film first premiered at the Videodanza Butoh Film Festival in Guyaquil, Ecuador in 2016. It was subsequently featured by the Creator’s Project (VICE).