7 Deadly Sins
The video emulates an apartment building where the “sins” occur, all on the same day and almost simultaneously.
18 rooms, each visible to the viewer throughout the piece, make up seven distinct apartments where the sins take place.
The audiences are voyeurs, and can selectively watch and hear the sins committed, over an eight minute period.
Seven New York based actors each portray multiple characters in their individual “sin”.
They were all separately filmed in my Brooklyn studio against a green screen, and by accurate timing and composition perform with themselves in short plays each approximately 3 minutes long in “virtual” apartments.
Since approximately 30 minutes of action has been compressed into an eight minute piece multiple viewing is necessary to appreciate its full depth.
The concept, writing, development, filming in HDV, and editing took place over a six month period.
The finished piece was assembled from over 100 layers of High definition video.