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Produced for Weekend America, first broadcast on June 25, 2005
"More than a reflection of the inner monologue of strangers on a subway, Jonathan Mitchell’s piece Eye Contact, originally made in 2005 for Weekend America, explores the anxieties of coincidence and all the fears and awkwardness that can surround interactions in public spaces. Using improvising actors to represent multiple narrators, the piece is woven through with the anxiety of uncanny parallels fueling these uncomfortable, albeit everyday, scenarios." - Kyla Imberg, The [Un]observed
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Review of Eye ContactThe observation that 2 people could be, by chance, moving in the same direction, as to give one the sense of being followed and the other the uncomfortable awareness that they aren't following them, but are moving in the same direction, and to give it enough merit to record it as a phenomena, is a great idea. A nice drop in for a safety topic on air. I don't know whether I've accurately chosen tones descriptive of this piece. However, truthful, or observant are some of the other tones I'd have chosen, if available. I love the choice of music beds. Initially, I was confused by the voices (were they people talking to each other, folks standing next to each other ? for example), it took a moment to finally hear that these were people in self talk mode. |
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Review of Eye ContactI really liked this piece as a snippet of everyday life in NY. Something that is rarely spoken of but surely happens often in a place where so many people live so closely. Well produced but the ending fell flat. perhaps the timing was off at the end. |
Broadcast History
Weeken America, June 25, 2005
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Posted on October 15, 2009 at 01:13 AM | Permalink
It's set in Chicago!
NY! Why couldn't this have been set in the Windy City? We've got a subway, too!
Would have given this 5-stars, but like a previous poster said, the ending fell flat.