iv. Time
May 2023
3:28
Time is the fourth chapter of Odes (see i.Body, ii.Outside, iii.Work).
Materials: Panasonic LUMIX GH5. Crazy tripod set up. Ambient sounds.
Note:
Initially, I wanted this chapter to be silent and capture a beautiful form of motion that is visible only to the camera, hoping to create a meditative experience for the viewer that illustrates how compelling the moving image can be by itself. I struggled with executing this and was disappointed by how discontinuous the shadows looked, so I added sound and leaned into creating a conspicuously digital representation. I wanted the sound to serve the images, so I gathered ambient sounds and used stereo effects to parallel the motion of the branches. I wanted the viewer to feel like they were there, watching the shadows move through time in this impossible, inhuman timescale, so I arranged the sounds to plausibly emulate a human auditory perspective.
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.
Read more about this here.