Tanya Syed

Chameleon

Tanya Syed

Chameleon presents a visual dialogue between the seen, the recognized and the unrecognized. A woman searches an inner landscape, a space that closes it up and encloses it. Her dress, a projection of femininity, becomes her means of expression. The film silently moves to the point of confrontation by means of rhythmic editing; the woman opens the door to the outside world. This shocking moment of violent interaction is reinforced by the only sound in the film.

Salamander

Tanya Syed

‘The film is set in a fast food take-away, at a roundabout where the excess of traffic, light and sound forces us into dream space. Projections of desire and place are carved into this nocturnal city. Moments of convergence and detachment intercut, forming narratives of expectation. Notions of home surface in this place of inherent transience, where only some gestures mark a continuity, where time and people pass through, fluid like water.' - LUX

Delilah

Tanya Syed

Located in the darkness, a place of no boundaries, Delilah is a 'meditation on violence', love and survival. Interchangeable elements of the warrior, the Sorceress and the lover weave a ritual, creating a dialogue of forces that shifts boundaries. This conversation of gesture and sound moves through tension and release, power and abandon. "The outside is within us. You moved like a warrior but I could not hold you."

Peggy Shaw – A Film Portrait

Tanya Syed

Peggy Shaw

With improvised interviews, sketches to camera and monologues from Shaw’s solo shows, both filmmaker and performer muse over the nuances of performance and gaze.