Have We Been Here Before?




For my experimental film regarding time I wanted to portray how memories can be altered by overanalysing the nuances of an experience. By changing a memory, it could be argued that you have altered time itself as you are changing your perspective of past events and letting the effects of overthinking a memory affect you in the present.

I got the inspiration for this concept by feeling anxious when I was editing footage I had filmed of me and my friends during summer. I found myself overanalysing the way people who I am not as close to now were acting in the footage and seeing if I could see early warning signs of their shifting opinions of me. It caused my perspective of happy memories to sour, simply by overthinking how people were reacting to my presence and contributions.

To portray this feeling of anxiety altering memories I decided to repeat the same routine of walking in and out of a room 4 times and capture my housemates candid and genuine reactions to my peculiar behaviour. I knew that their reactions would become more and more confused as I continued to cycle my silent entering and exiting of the room, which would represent the evolution of thinking about a memory and slightly altering the nuances of the people and events in the memory until it becomes a memory of regret when the reality was that you did nothing wrong at all.

To achieve the incognito filming of my unaware housemates I had set up my camera within a beer box before it was lunch time and then remotely triggered it to start recording so I didn't have to draw attention to it's secret location, potentially blowing its cover.

Overall I am really pleased with what I've been able to create with such a simple concept and how  my housemates acted as I predicted and became curious of my repetitive behaviour which successfully portrayed the change of perspective within a memory.

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