Today is the first day I went through almost the entire video with narration and audio. I had to rewrite a lot of the voice over to create more narrative clarity. Of all the films I've seen, it's most similar to Primer—cool-to-the-touch and brainy. But it also has a sensual quality that Primer lacks. I also don't think it's as exhausting. I made sure to leave enough 'thinking space,'—white space—to give people a chance to think after each segment. It's an odd viewing experience. Not much happens. Ben looking, thinking. I guess the whole film is a lot like me. A bit cryptic. Most of it 'internalized.' Definitely seems to mean something.
I think what makes the film odd and a little hard to "get into" is that most of the drama is not personified. But that was always the core of the film—how would something like this really play out? How would a film turn out if the main character was neither heroic nor cowardly?
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