Tuesday 22 April 2008

Treatment

The film is an abstract piece that uses the one footage of a person falling throughout the movie with occasional cuts to still images. The colors are slightly desaturated.
The mood is dreamy and in some bits even hallucinogenic.
It explores what it means to be a Posthuman. The sequence examines living in an alternative existence and going through portals and the possibility of entering other realms. Examples of these can be time travel, dreams or hallucinations.
Posthuman is what I understand as ‘beyond human’ and in this case other realities.The nature of the piece is such that it is open to any personal interpretations from the viewers, thus being abstract.
The piece starts off with opening titles.
Followed by imagery that is all distorted and out of focus to portray a kind of surreal effect that is reminiscent of Andre Kertesz’s photography or Ferenc Cako’s sand animations. Then cuts to several stills of colorful abstract images. Later on the original footage undergoes a metamorphosis and the images are distorted to create a mirrored and kaleidoscopic look. 
The idea is to have the images look real and surreal at the same time for a kind of out of this world aesthetic. The concept of a person falling is significant because it symbolizes travel between the worlds.
The end of the sequence returns to the original footage, only is played backwards to show the character's return to the original world she came from. The end titles begin to play.

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