This project, Anonymous Intimacy, is an attempt to define Proxemics in the public space by filming human interactions, and by questioning the hidden rules of proxemics between the camera and human perception.
The ‘Third Eye’ a cinematographic device which I invented to test and observe people’s behaviours in urban public space while expanding my own perception. The act of observation with the ‘Third Eye’ implies certain detached alertness, the act of carefully getting closer, listening, and registering events and their context without intervening in them. Although it is not completely innocent, observation in itself is not invasive. It does not impose the acceptance or rejection of the subject. By using the ‘Third Eye’- I was able to film in extreme proximity with strangers, cross the frontier of socially and physically unacceptable distance.
My film follows a journey of observation in three different cities: London, Venice and Seoul. A series of events that allowed me to observe the various type of proximity. It appears between urban dwellers and myself, through which I examine how urban dwellers are forced to share space, react to each, and how they perceive the other’s observant eye in each city.
The cinematographic device_Third Eye
Definition of Proxemics in four concepts of distances in human with specific definition and people's perception of the spaces in urban public space which driven by our visual dependence.
We are strict about what we can see with our eyes, but what’s behind us becomes irrelevant. For example, in a furniture arrangement in public, we sit back to back, and when we line up.
Explanation about Third Eye
The application of Third Eye in urban public spcae.
Film_Anonymous Intimacy
This film follows a journey of observation in three different cities: London, Venice and Seoul.
