iii. Work
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Work is the third chapter of Odes (see i.Body, ii.Outside, iv.Time).
Materials: Panasonic LUMIX GH5. Wack tripod set up.
Note:
Work followed the paradigms of structural filmmaking and was especially influenced by Hollis Framption’s Zorns Lemma (1970). Like Zorns Lemma, it systematically rotates through a series of tasks that reach completion and uses one static camera angle. I wanted there to be a growing sense of stress for the viewer, so I increased the pacing to create moments of climax and catharsis and reach a flicker that’s reminiscent of a film strip. I think the pacing and the editing of this chapter reached these goals, but I would have preferred to use a greater variety of “work” content because it is quite domestic and student-oriented.
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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