PROPOSAL

Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, pottery, palm-leaf books, paper, silk, canvas and of course, recorded on film, and stored in digital form.

I would like to see if I could mix the mediums of film and animation to create layers within a story. Each form can represent a different state of reality. Where do these realities meet? Can a hat that a character draws in the animation, become his prop in the film? How do objects travel across mediums?

There are two main formal cinematic concerns that I will be exploring in order to find one’s own poetics in the image: the point of view (as a narrative tool, as well as a formalistic one), and the constant internal rearrangement of the frame.

How can the order of events change the story? Is the edit chronological? If I show a memory of a character in an animation, and then erase the frames, does the character forget that memory? How can memory be used as a form?

I will essentially explore Form as a thematic element.
I would like to work on a short fiction, where a character doesn’t
realize his story is being created by a filmmaker. But the latter can
only create obstacles for the former. The character himself has to
react to them, or the story stops. So when the character becomes
suspicious of his constructed reality, how does he escape from it? But
those obstacles will come up through the exploration of form.