The Idea

What happens when an individual is immersed in an atmosphere made up completely of disturbing images?  With a movie projected on each wall of the trapezoidal room, a subject sits in the chair, while a video camera is recording them.   The video camera is fed out of the room to a TV where onlookers watch.  The subject is then told not to leave and the movies begin.  This room functions as a dreamscape because each wall represents a single individual’s own descent into the shadows of their subconscious.

 The images were gathered from various mediums such as movies, television, and the internet.  A semester's work of research forced us to reexperience the most disturbing images and movies we have seen.  Some of these images and movies had given us nightmares while others just made us cringe.  In a manner of speaking, the process of creation was a dreamscape in itself because we were exposed to the nightmares of our past.  Hopefully the viewer will walk away, better understanding the implications of 21 years of disturbing images on our subconscious.  We based our project centrally on the psychoanalyst’s understanding of the subconscious.   These images although not at the fore front of our day to day thoughts, are still locked in the back of our minds and can easily be obtained through visual and audio cues.

 We each gathered a huge number of video clips as well as still photos and edited each of our walls on Adobe Premiere 5.1.  Each of our intros, being the floating head and portal sequence, was timed the same so that the rest of the movie would synch up.  We then proceeded to edit our clips and photos until we reached approximately 5 minutes.  After our movie was edited, we added a collaborated ending where each of our walls gets a portion of a montage of explosions from Dr. Strangelove.  We then combined each of our original audio files from our wall movies and mixed them with the song “Morse Code” by Roni Size, “Linear Contrasts” by Vladimir Ussachevsky and a sound bite taken from Quasimoto’s “The Unseen.”  The soundtrack then ends with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”

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