Reset

My final project is a 6 minute video based upon set theory as applied to film, which we saw previously in Zorns Lemma. My idea was to create a set of routine shots from a man's life and repeat them multiple times, with each set being slightly different due to experiences the man has. The sets differ in the manner that they are shot (tripod vs fig rig vs handheld), the pace of the edits, and the visual appearance of the shots (saturation, contrast) depending on the experience that precedes the specific set. audio clips were taken from the movie Swingers and relate to the state of the main character. I was interested in exploring how the the principle of mathematical manipulation of a set by an operator can be applied to editing, and I wanted to show that an end product could be described by a set of transformations.

I was really hoping to investigate the idea of content coming from shape, whether it is content I intended or content the viewer finds on their own. The shots in the set were planned, but the "experiences" were not and for the most part came from shooting random places at random times or thinking of seemingly random sounds and later assigning meaning to them within the context of the film's structure. To this point all of the films I have made have been strongly narrative based, and this really pushed me to be more abstract.