BuildFilm3: 53 Chance Occurrences that Attempt Describing the Backside of the Baton (with a fun bit on the end) : Digital Video / Stereo Sound / 11min
Buildfilm is an ongoing project that aims to combine elements of both “structural cinema” and “poetic cinema” into a single genre/mode in the hopes of birthing a form of contemporary filmmaking that can properly deal with the media landscape we now face daily. Results may vary.
53 Chance Occurrences was filmed totally observationally, as any other one-man documentary capturing a spectacle. Warmth is inherent to this method. On the other hand, the film is edited coldly, at complete random. Shots fell into place based on the chance roll of a 53-sided die. That is except for the transcendental finale and the title card. Somewhere within the synthesis between these opposing forces, poetry and critique are born.