This is a video/sound collage of moments I have captured with my phone in the past few years. This piece's focal element is a video captured at the public art festival, where my teacher is analyzing a piece of art: "There is something here about the impermanence of things, the constant change." This became the subject of this video.
The video is a piece on time and memory. Firstly, it touches on the constant motion of time and the cyclical and eternal transformation it entails. Secondly, it touches on the idea of fleeting memories, and memories bleeding into each other, how unreliable nostalgia and memories are.
The video starts with the train coming into frame and ends with it getting out of frame to imply the idea of the cycle. All that starts ends and an end is the beginning of something new. The motifs of water, birds, trains and bikes are all used to portray the ideas of motion, of time "flying". In two instances, I changed the audio of what we observe on-screen and added "eerie noise" before a transition. This is to signify change and how unreliable memories are. I juxtaposed shots of the same places but from different times and angles to portray perspective and the different feelings these conditions cause. I tried to keep every shot linked to the previous one.
I realize that what I am showing isn't necessarily as clear as I'd like it to be, therefore I have created a brief explanation of what we are hearing/seeing.
Shots explained:
#1 Train coming into frame as it arrives at its terminus. We hear a person saying "There is something here about the impermanence of things, the constant change."
#2 Train leaves the station, we are looking at the place where the first shot was taken.
#3 Train crossing the bridge.
#4 Looking from the train at the bridge the previous shot is filmed on.
#5 Train crossing the bridge (louder), we hear bike sounds.
#6 The bridge is empty, birds are on the line.
#7 Loud birds. (eerie noise)
#8 Birds migrating, the original sound is changed to train sounds, where we hear "Prochaine gare".
#9 Fields in summer, we hear birds. (eerie noise)
#10 Walking in fall, with orange leaves falling.
#11 Shot of legs walking.
#12 Shot of legs biking. (eerie noise)
#13, 14, 15 Summer landscapes, cicada sounds, small swamps.
#16 Rain falls in the garden.
#17 Rain sounds continue into a shot of clouds moving fast, even though it is clearly not raining.
#18 Shot of clouds from an airplane.
#19 The art piece being analyzed by the professor (video from which eerie noise and "There is something here about the impermanence of things, the constant change" come from)
#20 Train crossing a bridge in winter, foggy.
#21 Public art piece. (eerie noise)
#22 Train leaving the frame as it arrives at its terminus.
