Words
In My Mouth Voices In My Head is a series of shorts based on
working with solo actors in an improvized and immediate way. A script
is developed by Philip Brophy specifically for an actor - placing 'words
in their mouth' - and then shooting the actor improvizing the script
in a chosen location. All the dialogue is then post-dubbed - the 'voices
in their head'. The script, shoot and edit is intended to be done within
a short time frame. No. 1 (Anna) was done in one week.
The result is the creation of a series of disconnected thoughts emmanating
from the perfomer. With Anna, most of the text is recorded
as voice-over, as if these are the thoughts in Anna's (the actress)
head. Pghilip and actor Anna Anderson moved around the city, shooting
Anna in different situations half-thinking these thoughts and sometimes
half-speaking them to herself, like she's in her own world. The shooting
was done in public spaces, so that it's like she's losing herself in
the crowd, but comfortable about it as she works things through in her
head.
Instead of doing the music himself, Philip is commissioning a series
of composers to provide passages of music based on the mood shifts in
the script. With Anna, Philip secured Leigh Ryan to
do the music. Philip then edited the video and mixed both voice and
music into 5.1, foregrounding spatial shifts to convey the sense of
being inside the character's head.
