Unseen: The Lives of Looking. (360G-Wellcome-101381_Z_13_Z)

This first feature length essay film by contemporary artist Dryden Goodwin will delve into distinct worlds of intense scrutiny, through the self-reflexive prism of his singular and intense drawing and filmmaking activity. 'Unseen: The Lives of Looking' will explore different scales of looking, different forms of looking, different reasons for looking, in a poetic and metaphysically charged journey, charting a series of close encounters by the artist. The film will focus primarily on four individ uals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: a forensic scientist, a surgeon, a clairvoyant and an astronomer. Working beyond conventional narrative and script, yet weaving compelling intricate emotional through lines, the film will be informed by the close observation of each world. The artist's own gaze and implicit presence will forge the bond that links the lives of these probing observers. Growing out of Goodwin's long-term investigation into expansive forms of portraiture, the fi lm aims to unlock diverse worlds, to expose the kinship of those who live by the sensory rules of observation and visual analysis in the pursuit of knowledge. Revealing the specialist apparatus and methods of the forensic scientist's gathering of minute evidence, the surgeon's effecting of medical change, the clairvoyant's voicing of extra-sensory perception and the astronomer's decoding of the cosmos, an episodic structure will emerge in a shifting visual palette. The film will extend into a ci nematic context the role of the soundtrack, a key component in Goodwin's work.