Project 2

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The Nap

For this project I wanted to explore the idea of time passing through a non-narrative. I decided to choose nature as my medium of analyzing time because of nature’s timelessness. The blanket laid on the ground for the actress to sleep on represent the 6’  x 6’ limit of the project. Outside, time no longer becomes something that we are constantly checking or keeping an eye on. When we spend time in nature, the concept of time does not seem to exist any more. I wanted to highlight the shadows in this piece because shadows are one of the ways the nature observes time without numbers. The shadows are also meant to make the piece meditative.

All of the choices made for the film were meant to make watching the film a peaceful experience. The shadows are mimicking a light breeze and the actress is falling asleep. There aren’t any sudden moves or jump cuts in the film. The only non-natural element in the film is her phone. The actress uses the phone to put an alarm on to wake her up from her nap. But in the end, she sleeps through the alarm and wakes up at the end for seemingly no reason. This is supposed to represent that nature takes away any value that time would have if the actress were maybe taking a nap on her bed. She wakes up at the end to close the film with a somewhat shocking image. She wakes up because of her own accord, not because it is time to. The shadows represent nature’s cyclical way of measuring time – through change, not through numbers on a clock.