An exercise highlighting the presence of trees in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. Returning to the clip used in “Embodied Sound,” I brought many images of trees moving rapidly, which reminded me of looking through a car with the windows down; this is meant to stimulate a memory of an arboreal scent, one that may […]
An exercise focusing on my embodied emotional response to a key scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. I filmed myself watching 10 minutes of this sequence with two cameras trained on my face. This most openly vulnerable of responses led to a larger examination of spectatorship and memory.
An exercise adding Lima into a sequence highlighting “fallen world cities” in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men.
An exercise adding my own sudden erratic breathing, recorded with a contact microphone against my throat, interlaced into a sequence in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. In particular, this exercise exposed how much nature is shown in a film otherwise thought to be very urban; see also Embodied Smell exercise.
A supercut tracing the points in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men where the camera stops following the main character and diverts to something outside the film’s explicit narrative. Note: after completing this exercise, I discovered there is a 7th instance (right before Janice is killed). Crafted in Summer 2023 to fulfill the “Embodied Supercut” exercise […]
