Here’s some footage that I shot while away in Wales. It’s a few months old now, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to edit it together and play around with the interactivity. I won’t explain where or what purpose the interactivity is, or what significance there might be for having it. Not that it’s exactly difficult to find, but there has to be some mystery in it. Otherwise it’s just a bit of video footage of a dog and some plants, for god’s sake! Each of the video segments plays independently. These video fragments brought together like this allow the collected moments of a day to be played synchronously and to collapse the individual time frames into the single time frame of the length of the whole time it takes to play them all at once. The difference between the way multiple frames are used in a film like, for example, Chelsea Girls, and an interactive film like this and the work of Will Leurs or Adrian Miles (to name but two of the artists exploring this style of web-based film work) is the inclusion of the viewer’s ability to control the time the video takes to unfold. Multi-framed works (Figgis’ Timecode might be included?) still unfold along the traditional linear arrow of every other film. Perhaps these web-based interactive films offer a chance to subvert that?
Oh, you know what? I have actually just tried to explain this video and some of my thoughts on the interactivity. I’m nothing if not inconsistent.
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