For my "Research" blog post I spoke about a vague idea I had for my final project this quarter, and I would like to clarify some ideas I have for it.
By an "abstract narrative" I mean a non-traditional, experimental film that doesn't really tell a linear story, but more describes a process and human experience that is persistent and perpetual, but doesn't really have a beginning or an end. This film will be about social construct, and trying to constantly break it apart and find meaning inside and outside of it. I do want to have a sense of a beginning, however, before I emerge into the process. The beginning will portray being born into the world as a clean slate, and then developing rules, borders, and limitations over time that build our perceptions of the world. Then we reach a point of adolescence, where a person begins to recognize themselves in their process of learning and being, and trying to rearrange the grooves in their brains and break the barriers that they subconsciously built in themselves, and this is where the perpetual non-linear side of the "story" will take place, to portray the constant problem we all face as humans that we must continuously try to solve, though we never will.
Rough examples for how the film will go:
Starting out in a blank space. White sheet of paper, or...?
Filming a ruler, someone drawing lines and boxes, borders.
Putting certain images into boxes: i.e., a picture of a cat, in a box, write the word "cat"
Time lapse of people coming and standing in line, being served, leaving
Taking images out of context: i.e., portraying the cat in a way that it becomes a furry creature rather than a domestic object
Word "cat" becomes scribbles
Dismantling a chair, putting it back together in a different way
Rearranging domestic objects in a room in various ways
Monday, April 7, 2008
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