Jon Benner
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This is the story of a young man who is contacted by an outside presence.
The project displays an attempt for two worlds to communicate with one
another. Not only does this project hold the theme of isolation, solitude
and fragmentation, but we are able to actually have contact with the main
character, Samantha. There are many attempts made by the outside presence.
that lead the main character to become lost within his own sanity. The
character, not understanding the purpose of the visits from the
consciousness, searches within himself to find a reason but is unable to.
Soon sanity is far from the reality of the main character. Jon presents his
work through the creation of a short film. His original idea was to react
from a more personal point of view. Jon wanted to search through emotions
that would occur in himself, but through the course of the semester he
adapted the story more and more to fit with the class narrative. In Jon's
project, we are able to see exactly what role Samantha plays in each of
these people's lives and how this particular part of her original being
reacts to the communication between each other. Most of the complications
that Jon came across were due to typical production problems such as
weather, equipment, etc.