This is an experimental film in that a primary motivation was that I wanted to explore movement through and around three dimensional collage. Or I guess one might say, create four dimensional collage. I had done some 3d digital experiments whereby I was applying out of scale unexpected textures from real world sources onto architecture and urban form – things like hand written letters, dictionary pages, newspaper clippings, photos of people and things etc. I broke-up the regularity of the streets by including scaled up tea-cups, tricycles, letterforms, and such. In addition, I scaled things like fire hydrants and glasses up to the scale of buildings, and scaled down things like buildings to be the size of furniture or mementos. As well, I embraced that in a computer, there is no gravity. Thus a pair of spectacles can be enormous as well as suspended in mid air.
These experiments were interesting visually, but also, conceptually, I was taking material from the intimate and private realm and exposing it for the public realm. This worked for me, helping me visualize what I call psychic architecture.
Another impulse, ironically, was to get off the computer and make things by hand, using paper and wood and paint and such. Crafting if you like. And by camera recording these hand made bits, celebrate all the material and textural variety, the imperfections, and surprise that come from doing collage.
Narratively the film was intended to be less a linear unfolding storyline, and more a loop of sensual immersion. In my mind, the subject blind old man is willfully blind, having decided to tune out the external visual overwhelm, in order to return to his box of memories. Subject wise, it is this “insight” of the “psychic architecture” I wanted to convey – in all its non-linerarity, complexity, juxtaposition, and contraction.
Watch the film here: