Analysis of Final Project

My final project will include time-lapse footage of sleeping in a normal bedroom and walking in a haunted house. The footage of the house will be very fast-paced while the footage of sleep will be slower. In “Paying Attention”, Jonathan Beller mentioned that the film industry created image-commodities that “valorizes” certain images. The footage I have is similar to film from horror movies, as the fast-pace effect is commonly used to indicate a memory or illicit fear, anxiety, or anticipation due to the uncertainty of these images. Implying a memory or dream by altering time is also discussed in T.J Demo’s “A Matter of Time”. She states, “Modern psychology soon recognized that human beings may experience time’s flow variably; that the lived duration may be manipulated”. In other words, experience is defined by time, and the alteration of time can invoke different emotions. I am hoping that my time lapse will invoke a state of anxiety instead of humor, as a few of my previous time lapses have seemed more humorous than serious. By altering between images of someone sleeping and the perspective of someone walking through the house, I hope to portray a sense of being watched, as I have done this in my previous videos and I think it would be interesting to connect my final with my previous two video projects. Peter Weibel’s “Endless Sandwich” gives an example of this, although his video literally shows a man watching a video of him watching another video.