Six participants were given the same raw footage and minimal instructions to recompose it. The result uses existing editing platforms to create a unified but dimensional experience out of the six unique interpretations. The goal is to find unpredictable patterns among the edited pieces, leading to an extended grammar for dimensionality.
A New Grammar of Seeing
I am interested in re-imagining how we use recording technologies and the editing platform. I wanted to ask the fundamental question: How do we see stories? Are there other mean of creating them? I am not interesting in continuing to use media technologies in the standard way. This is not a project that simply examines the old methods of creating films. In a way, I am rebuilding the grammar of seeing, how to make us become flexible and genially respond to the media environment.
Six Reinterpreted Narratives, Tile
Project X is made up of six reinterpreted video narratives, that were collected from participating editors. All of them were composed from a set of raw footage clips and one audio track that I provided for the editors.
Six Reinterpreted Narratives
After getting all six reinterpreted short cuts back from participated editors, I was interested in finding the clips that may be able to be remixed and reused by different editors. The reinterpreted video was being arranged in two compositions: overlapped and parallel. The goal for me was to look at the predictable patterns, finding similarities and develop a grammar for the extension of dimensionality.
Overlap of Six Reinterpretations
The idea is to find a similarity of dimensionality through the possibility of a single person's projective experience. Human perception is accustomed to seeing one thing at a time, nowadays, we are accus to view media that has been edited, filtered and refined.
Parallel of Six Reinterpretations