Self-interrupted, a video by Palmer Fishman

A short experiment in how the video editing process can add layers of content.

The brain, disorganized by a major depressive episode

Actively distracted by

withdrawal from some tired psychotropic medications and

the lag time to achieve a

'steady state' (at least in the blood) of

some shiny new pills

The video

shot as a retrospective log of one day's effort to get

dressed and out the door

Edited by s t r e t ch ing it out and

excising

alternating

seconds

then adding back in slivers of

greenery, the search for relief

itself another interruption

To watch in full-screen on youtube.com, click here:
self-interrupted

Excerpts from Nevertheless

My rough cut of two iterations of Nevertheless, a piece about chance and inevitability, the inexorable progress of events unfolding.

How do we choose to understand the things that happen to us? How do we perceive the things we cause to happen?
How much choice do we have in how we understand or perceive?
How fragile, or resilient, are we?
One roll took place at Metafora art center in Barcelona, shot by Desiree Haupts, the other in a courtyard in El Papiolet, a small village in Spain, shot by Manuela Bernasconi.  Both were shot for informal documentation.  There's a more intentional video performance piece yet to come.

To see a larger version directly on youtube.com click here: Nevertheless, a Palmer Fishman production.