This original avant-garde film was premiered for projection at the 80th anniversary tribute performance honoring Fredrick Kaufman, Founder of the School of Music at Florida International University, at FIU in June, 2016. It is inspired in part by the Japanese taiko drums, Flamenco dance-song-castanets and guitars in composer Fredrick Kaufman's music, heard here in soundtrack form, and explores contrasting counterpoints emphasized by the bonfire-like snapping and crackling of the flamenco dance and dancers' feet and hands. The multi genre visual media used in the composition of this film adds a rich visual voice which both harmonizes to and keys off the textures and layers provided by the dancers and the musicians. The filmmaker marks light and celluloid to perform rhythmically and visually in live concert with a rare recording of Kaminarimon II by the eminent American musician-composer Fredrick Kaufman. The moving image is a painting genre- direct animation- a medium that expands the already lush, multimedia dimension of the multimedia theater of Kaminarimon II, . Cameron's composition orchestrates music, dance , performance and painting and drawing into a unique idiom- that of cinematic paper emulsion projection, using her own patented imaging technique to breathe life into a transmedia film.
Music by Fredrick Kaufman.
