This was at the end of May 2005, at a venue called The Space in Mudchute. Once again, the images are stills from someone else's video but I don't have details of who shot it. The camera has exaggerated everything I didn't like about the lighting and minimised the rest, as always. But it gives you something of an idea of how it looked. The company had done a lot of work developing a theatrical language for the piece, with strong influences from silent films and the use of very bold gestures that almost became tableaux. I wanted the lighting to develop those themes by building up a good strong contrast between light and shade. That and the use of strong sidelighting help develop the pictorial sense of the image being a framed composition that you often get in films made before the camera could move easily. I'm not sure if I quite got the best out of the space, but it doesn't look bad considering the amount of time I had to work on it. If I was going to relight the piece, I'd probably try and knock up some projections for the scene changes to mimic the title cards you find in old films. Hopefully that should fill up the dead time and help develop the structure of the work a bit more. I'd also avoid having to remove the backlight to replace a lamp after losing a bulb and discovering there were no spares, especially as I was left with a fresnel on one side and a pc on the other, which is partly why there's a very marked line on the seam between the two.