A woman attempts to remember the details of a tramautic experience. She remembers herself standing surrounded by trees and leaves and layers of fabric covering and uncovering her face. In her attempt to reconstruct the scene, she must “unlayer” the details of a story she has tried to forget.
She battles between uncovering her memories and covering herself from the viewers' gaze. The woman appears and disappears between the folds of her dress. She covers herself by pulling her dress down but an exterior force invades her space, making the viewer transgress the boundaries of intimacy.
"Underneath this dress, I unfold" addresses the paradox found in the process of remembering acts that we voluntearily try to forget. The process of remembering requires us to go inwards, to look further into our deepest memories and settle back into the time and space in which the event took place. In "Underneath this dress, I unfold" the camera plays both the witness to a remembering and the intrusive gaze the woman battles against, making the viewer take on a participatory role in the woman's process of remembering.
She battles between uncovering her memories and covering herself from the viewers' gaze. The woman appears and disappears between the folds of her dress. She covers herself by pulling her dress down but an exterior force invades her space, making the viewer transgress the boundaries of intimacy.
"Underneath this dress, I unfold" addresses the paradox found in the process of remembering acts that we voluntearily try to forget. The process of remembering requires us to go inwards, to look further into our deepest memories and settle back into the time and space in which the event took place. In "Underneath this dress, I unfold" the camera plays both the witness to a remembering and the intrusive gaze the woman battles against, making the viewer take on a participatory role in the woman's process of remembering.
Director
Tracy Valcarcel
Writer
Tracy Valcarcel
Cinematographer
Tracy Valcarcel
Editor
Tracy Valcarcel
Composer
Hi-Asobi
Length
7:53
Released
08 October 2012
Genre
Country
Edition
Screenings
- ((.mov)) Videoarte en mOvimiento, Lima, Cusco and Iquitos, Peru
- "2000 WATTS", Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
- "As we leave, we arrive changed/unchanged", Coatcheck Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
- "19 Works", La Elastica, Montreal, Canada.
- "From That Time", Studio 303, Montreal, Canada.
- "2000 WATTS", Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
- "As we leave, we arrive changed/unchanged", Coatcheck Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
- "19 Works", La Elastica, Montreal, Canada.
- "From That Time", Studio 303, Montreal, Canada.


Tracy Valcarcel Rodriguez
Tracy Valcarcel is a multidisciplinary artist born in Lima and based in Montreal. Focusing on performance and video installation, since 2010 Tracy has worked with the theme of the body and its position within a cultural identity framework. She has trained as a pianist and a dancer in Lima under the guidance of choreographers Sonia Hayashida and Morella Petrozzi.In 2009 she was invited to..
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Tracy Valcarcel is a multidisciplinary artist born in Lima and based in Montreal. Focusing on performance and video installation, since 2010 Tracy has worked with the theme of the body and its position within a cultural identity framework. She has trained as a pianist and a dancer in Lima under the guidance of choreographers Sonia Hayashida and Morella Petrozzi.In 2009 she was invited to..
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