With most of my projects taking on a fairly cheerful and happy look, I decided to explore how you could visualise something more negative. In my case, I am using a mind as the ‘implied space’ and the words are negative thoughts. To gather the words, I picked out things I considered negative from conversations with people
Most of this is the result of projection experiments. The idea is that your thoughts are sort of dictated by memory and things being experienced. For me memory (in everyday life) comes in short bursts, experiences are projected through my eyes.
So that’s the concept. I originally photographed my projection experiments, but decided in the end it would work better as a mini-film piece. The sound is influenced by Eraserhead which used no music, instead relying on the sounds produced from the World around us. Music and sound is a strange thing, because it can totally change the concept of what you are watching. It was important for me to keep the sense of disorientation. In their case it was a very industrial dominated soundtrack, mine takes more from city life.
As far as future improvements and additions go, I may well make another version. Its been suggested that I use some digital effects, because its all been done in camera up until now.
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