16mm/HD/color/sound
9 minutes
2016

Shot and edited by Ericka Beckman
Percussionist: Richard Flanagan, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Featuring: Minute Man Marching Band
Funding in part by the LEF Foundation of New England 2007.

Tension Building is a composite of linked architectural spaces, some are real and some are models. It combines stop motion and live action filmmaking shot at the Harvard University Coliseum in Boston (1935) and the Municipal Stadium in Florence (1932), built in by Luigi Nervi. It features Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Richard Flanagan, and the U Mass Minute Man Marching Band. I used my camera like a surveyor’s transit and created some rules for its path around the stadium.

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