The hidden dimension.

• Main Author: Choo, Sarah Jing.
• Other Authors: Martin Constable
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Panoramas; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::Digital; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Portraits
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52342
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

'Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another.’ -Octovio Paz Solitude has become a significant issue in today’s society. This is ironic when contrasted against a highly populated city, such as that of Singapore. How is it possible, that despite being surrounded by people, we are so much alone? In her recent work, Choo reflects upon this phenomenon. In The Hidden Dimension she questions the effectiveness of the relief offered by daily routines. Seven members of her family are depicted engaged in trivial acts of self-occupation. At exactly the same point in the film, in an unexpected cadence, they simultaneously break from their self-imposed Sisyphean distraction and look out into the audience and each other. Between Us explores the topic of the isolation obliged upon us by our jobs. Seven professionals: a doctor, a lawyer, a mechanic, a clerk, a hawker, a teacher and a shopkeeper are pictured busy in their work environments. In a slow fade, the environment disappears and they are left in a forbidding, grey, concrete space.