ii. Outside
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Outside is the second chapter of Odes (see i.Body, iii.Work, iv.Time).
Materials: Panasonic LUMIX GH5. Sony PXW-X70. 7 interviews.
Note:
Outside was influenced by Dziga Vertov’s idea of the kino-eye in concept and process. I went out with the camera to different locations without a specific goal in mind and captured shots that were interesting to me. While editing the chapter, I searched for an internal logic and rhythm between the images to emulate Vertov’s form of montage. By adding documentary interview audio to these images, I hoped to create a contemplative and serene space for the viewer similar, to Joseph Cornell’s Angel (1957).
Outside is edited so that the images and audio are ordered independently of each other, so there is no intended relationship between what the viewer is seeing and hearing. I think this succeeded in producing an engaging, unpredictable, and subjective experience for the viewer because of the urge to form those relationships and perhaps creates an awareness of this underlying impulse to derive meaning. I like this process because there are infinite iterations that would yield completely different products with essentially the same “meaning”, but it is also tiring because it requires producing a lot of unused video and audio.
Note on Odes:
Odes is a collection of five experimental shorts made on video and film about the everyday. The goals of Odes are two-fold: to explore the fundamental components of cinema that are unique to it as an art form and to use those attributes to create distinctly cinematic experiences of everyday sights and sounds. Odes is fundamentally interested in different cinematic representations of reality and uses recreation and documentary modes of production to explore this. I believe cinema cannot convey “truth” or “reality” without meta-analysis of its limits and conventions that are apparent to the viewer in the final product. Every chapter of Odes practices this idea differently by drawing attention to mediums, different production methods, and arranging images and sounds unconventionally.
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