"Tokyo, We're On Our Way!" B-17: Re-Zoom 1

B-17: Re-Zoom 1
A Fantastic High-Speed Space Cruise

Before working on B-17: A Mini Epic", I was writing a script for a feature where I was using sexual themes (bondage, domination, subjugation, etc.) as metaphors for the types of relationships world powers exercised with different countries as well as their own populations.

B-17 was a twelve minute one person performance piece Sarah Weis had created and performed a handful of times before I met her. When we first met, she did not have a video document of the performance so she performed it for me in her kitchen. I realized it would be a perfect vehicle for playing with those metaphors, as well as experimenting with the type of camerawork and the directorial and procedural approach that I was formulating as the basis for my "Hyper-Cinema" theories. http://hyper-cinema.com/

Sarah had not thought of making it into a film as she had never made one before, and it was created to be a live stage performance. After all, how long can one live performer, in a set populated by nothing else but inanimate objects, maintain ones interest in a movie? However, she got totally excited when I offered the possibility and talked about using it to test my cinematic theories. She wanted use the opportunity to take "method" acting to its extremes.

It was supposed to be a short two week exploratory project. I would then use what I would learn from this experiment on my own movie. We both ended up getting totally immersed in it for nine months. It became a thirty six minute movie and an eleven episode Youtube series, garnering millions of views, and the beginning of my creative partnership with Sarah.

When we started working on continuation episodes, I was interested in trying to start to define the pieces within the historical context of the times.

B-17: Re-Zoom 1 was the first continuation episode of the B-17 series, and was completed in March, 2007 at the height of the Bush era's "War on Terror".

I uploaded it here as a document our artistic reaction to the times, and a reminder of the sociopolitical environment we just came from.

For this episode to make sense, please watch all the episodes in correct sequence. Click on: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
and select "Play All Videos."

i^3 counter-broadcast: http://i3hypermedia.com/mainpage.php

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