ONE TINY LITTLE SECRET, 2006
Video, 2 minutes 27 seconds
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Concept, performance, and direction by Teresa Brazen
Cinematography and post-production by Raegan Hodge

“One Tiny Little Secret” is a video installation intended to be projected on three walls of a dark, enclosed room.

The video examines what we do with our secrets and what our secrets do to us. Which has more power: the keeper of the secret or the secret itself? To reinforce this theme, the visual perspective of the video vacillates between that of the “secret keeper” and the secret. In one moment the viewer watches hands cup around an envelope containing a secret; in the next those same hands seem to be enveloping the viewer. As hands move, the sound of whispered secrets fills the room. My intention is to surround the viewer with these larger-than-life images and sounds, placing them almost directly into the narrative and distorting the boundary between subject and object. Ultimately, who is hiding whom? Who is destroying whom? Who is revealing whom?

To view a copy of the video, send a request to info@brazenart.com.