Version 75 is essentially locked. It's 16 minutes including credits. I think it came out well. There are some nice parts and some rough parts. One rough section is the bird attack. It makes a huge difference that we weren't able to go back on location. I think the bird attack is legible, but not particularly well shot. The other rough section is the third act, the abstract codex section. I'm discovering, once again, that you can be ambiguous only in certain ways in film. Artists are used to working with two kinds of ambiguity—syntactic density and semantic density, using Nelson Goodman's terms. Syntactic density refers to images that can be read in a number of ways. For example, a syntactically dense image might be read as a mountain or a wave or a cloud. Semantic density refers to a richness of interpretation; the meaning is ambiguous. Syntactically dense imagery doesn't seem to work well in film. If I were shooting the codex segment again, I would make it clearer what's happening.
I think the film is best at engendering trust. You feel like it's taking you someplace, and that if you play along, you'll be rewarded in some way.
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