I've been dreaming this story since we talked about strategies for communication with diminished and undiminished capacity...leave to you to break and mend the narrative through art, music, action, repeatedly and still preserve flow and context...the music, the pacing, the broken syncopation of the themes, all spoke to making contact with the world and living in it authentically when language, the very bedrock of experience, fails us. Just gorgeous on so many levels, Hypatia. Thank you so much!
holy shit the paintings are super credible as responses to the works. As always the language manages to be incisive and suggestive at the same time. The coolness of the music was a perfect "yeah." You paint the frame with characters, text has a pull of its own and I felt pulled into the imagery whereas text can so easily pull past or out. Are those newspaper characters made up to suggest his aphasic puzzle, or are they glyphs you excavated in your scholarship (or both)?
@2SenseProductions huge thanks.. You're the first to notice the paintings which were the single hardest thing to do in the machinima... lol: make them wholly Simon's. I was afraid the writing would distract, but I really did want to make music, image and words part of the whole "look." The newspaper characters are random, and meant to suggest that that's what reading looks like to Simon. "Dirt Rhodes" ... yeah. :) DAMN STRAIGHT, man! I heard that and said that's it!!!
Interesting, I like your use of non-time-linear streams of images, a technique that I've always had trouble using myself, with a few exceptions, must be the way my brain is wired. ;-) What inspires you to use aphasia as a topic?
@DavidArv what inspired me? Terror. Sympathy. Other stuff. Long ago I sold a story to ST:DS9 called "Babel" about a planetary condition that interfered with your ability to speak sensibly. Wernicke's aphasia does just that but it's accompanied by impaired understanding of language as well, so you're totally shut in and you know it. Ravel and Baudelaire were both stricken. When I saw Gingered Alsop's Shattered (shown in film) I was moved to make the machinima.
Impressive, Hypatia :).
LalaLarix 4 months ago
this is wonderful - well done you !!
searby 5 months ago
Congratulations Hypatia like each of your movies, sense and sensibility.
Wonderful film :)
TutsyNavarathna 5 months ago
Like your style alot!
penumbracarter 5 months ago
big hug, guys! Thanks for your encouragement! :)
textcavation 5 months ago
I've been dreaming this story since we talked about strategies for communication with diminished and undiminished capacity...leave to you to break and mend the narrative through art, music, action, repeatedly and still preserve flow and context...the music, the pacing, the broken syncopation of the themes, all spoke to making contact with the world and living in it authentically when language, the very bedrock of experience, fails us. Just gorgeous on so many levels, Hypatia. Thank you so much!
domainrouge 5 months ago
oh, and I love the dancing in the light/out of the light...!
domainrouge 5 months ago
holy shit the paintings are super credible as responses to the works. As always the language manages to be incisive and suggestive at the same time. The coolness of the music was a perfect "yeah." You paint the frame with characters, text has a pull of its own and I felt pulled into the imagery whereas text can so easily pull past or out. Are those newspaper characters made up to suggest his aphasic puzzle, or are they glyphs you excavated in your scholarship (or both)?
2SenseProductions 5 months ago
@2SenseProductions huge thanks.. You're the first to notice the paintings which were the single hardest thing to do in the machinima... lol: make them wholly Simon's. I was afraid the writing would distract, but I really did want to make music, image and words part of the whole "look." The newspaper characters are random, and meant to suggest that that's what reading looks like to Simon. "Dirt Rhodes" ... yeah. :) DAMN STRAIGHT, man! I heard that and said that's it!!!
textcavation 5 months ago
Interesting, I like your use of non-time-linear streams of images, a technique that I've always had trouble using myself, with a few exceptions, must be the way my brain is wired. ;-) What inspires you to use aphasia as a topic?
DavidArvBragi 5 months ago
@DavidArv what inspired me? Terror. Sympathy. Other stuff. Long ago I sold a story to ST:DS9 called "Babel" about a planetary condition that interfered with your ability to speak sensibly. Wernicke's aphasia does just that but it's accompanied by impaired understanding of language as well, so you're totally shut in and you know it. Ravel and Baudelaire were both stricken. When I saw Gingered Alsop's Shattered (shown in film) I was moved to make the machinima.
textcavation 5 months ago
What a lovely dedication to these awesome artists - your right up there with them Patty! Has such a nice flow I had to watch twice :)
mw2ndlife 5 months ago
Very intriguing piece, very well filmed as usual, very good editing choices, de la belle ouvrage !
Bravo !
Ionoallen 5 months ago
lovely music and voice, very Laurie Anderson, wonderful film, love it :D
CelestialElf 5 months ago
Wow!!!
majenh 5 months ago
impressive
selbyevans 5 months ago
WOW! A truly amazing film! Stunningl. I love everything about it.
SpiralSiverstar 5 months ago
Great video i really like it
jjccccc 5 months ago
Pretty cool video. The windlight settings are great, especially "the fog" . The music fits so well and I loooove your vioce:) Thumbs up!
NRandt 5 months ago
Oh..I loved this video...glides so nicely through my mind, leaving after images
mistyshoressl 5 months ago
its beautifully done Hyp. very deep
jayjayzifanwe 5 months ago