Set and Light Design
Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
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Director: Gary Whitaker
Cast: Aiyana Bartlett / Aviva Wrede
Set and Light Design: Diblik Rabia Leon
Sound design: Karl Wassholm
Animation: Emil Wickholm Thureson
Project description: It’s the story in the voice of Rory, a grief-stricken, angry and passionate teenager struggling with the death of her father.
Rory's dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally, he was a geography teacher. And when he dies suddenly in an accident, Rory feels that she needs to make an expedition.
With a bagpack and Dad's ashes at her side, Rory sets off her adventure to the North Pole, a place where always her dad wanted to go. And is how Rory and her dad's ashes start an adventure that follows the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers that her dad used to read. She gets out her home before her mum finds out they've gone.
Work description: This project came at a very sad time for me. Like the character, I was grieving the recent death of an uncle who was like a father to me, so the project was a way of honouring the process of grieving.
The symbolic discourse of the scenography about the Arctic and Rory’s grief was reflected in the graphic forms that I interpreted as the form of grief, through sharp points, folds that form layers as if they were memories and at the same time an Arctic melting due to global warming, surrounded by a black space, which represents absence.
This scenographic design would also evoke snowy mountains, Nordic landscapes and colours that are associated with the Northern Lights.
The lighting design worked with the basic principles of dance lighting design, with the idea of creating elongated shadows, which visually resemble the fading of energy due to the loss of a loved one.
Trailer of Hundred Words for Snow and more information: https://www.gest.se/a-hundred-words-for-snow
Sketches, Model & Process
Set & Light Design
