Hello there.
Hi
Hi.
Hello.
You know, I spend quite a while behind the camera,
but I never had to speak to it before.
This is pretty bizarre.
I mean, I know you guys are behind there,
and it's great.
But it's strange.
Let's begin.
Hi.
My name is Dafna Tal.
Welcome to my living room.
I'm a photographer.
I'm a video artist,
I'm a Canon Ambassador and I want to share with you this project today
called 'You're Gorgeous, You're Mad'.
I made this project thinking about how difficult it is for me to be myself.
Especially when I'm trying to create a certain impression,
like right now.
And so I started by making a series of audio interviews.
I invited people and I asked them to reveal what is it that they really
think and feel about who they are.
Several days later,
I invited each one of them to come to the studio,
observe their reflection and listen to their edited version of their interview.
While they were listening,
I was filming them from the other side of that two way mirror.
Here's what some of them had to say.
You're fun.
I know you're fine.
You like to make jokes.
You are gentle and passionate.
You're afraid of disappointing people.
You don't like the way you look.
You don't care about what other people think about you.
You fear the acceptance that you will not get.
You are beautiful
and gorgeous. You are bad.
You have a beautiful soul,
you are really bad.
Dancing with the dead. Dancing with the love.
When you sing it feels like you're singing to yourself in the shower. You're not like those
people who are made, like they can sing to themselves in the shower,
but not in front of people.
So you probably want to see my set.
Let me thank you there.
This is how my set looks like.
I used to continuous lights and the camera setting that you see below.
I also use face detection focus,
which was super helpful in making these videos.
I chose this type of lighting and dark background because I wanted the participants to really
focus on their image and on the sound without any other distractions.
The people who you see in the clips,
by the way,
are actually a really cool group of international artists.
We all attended an artist residency program together called Experimental Film Virginia.
So this was a
super brief introduction of this project.
I hope you liked it.
And if you have any comments,
if you want to see more,
feel free to email me or check out my website portal.
Thank you for watching,
and I will see you in the next time I will speak to my camera.