The New Boredom

I’ve posted this on the old blog before but it turned up while digging through a hard drive and I think it’s worth re-posting.

This is from a super8 film class I took in the spring of 2008 I think it was. The assignment called for me to make a self portrait film. In order to keep it simple I just ran a single shot for the length of the roll of film. The audio gets layered on with as many as 14 tracks going at the same time. The whole Idea was that I’m a horrible person: I’ll judge you for no good reason at all. All you have to do is happen to walk by me on the street and you could be a victim of my foregone conclusions. The wildly insufficient defense that is implied is that I do the same thing to everyone, at least I’m not discriminating.

Anyways, the film went over well and everyone seemed to get a kick out of it but only a small handful of fellow students drew the connection that I’ve probably done exactly the same thing to them. And only two had the guts to inquire what my initial snap judgement was about them.

For the film nerds this is Ektachrome 64t filtered for daylight and hand processed in a tank with a Kodak 6 bath e-6 kit. Digital transfer using capture-mate and some sony trv-900 or something for capture.

I should also note that I’m trying to move away from this mentality and better understand why it is that I’m such a ‘hater’ and what it actually is that pisses me off about the world. At least 98% of my hating is meant for comic relief and I harbor no real ill will.

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I see you.

Even as a kid I felt like I was tripping my ass off just watching this movie.