Crossing

The camera I use to record video saves data to CompactFlash so badly that I'm always looking for ways to mash up the resulting stream into something more interesting. Recalling a brief moment in a telecine transfer of Roman Polanski's 1965 film, Repulsion, I decided to try to use Photoshop actions to filter each frame of a video, taken through the window of a café in town, into an approximation of how things used to be. The audio track used is from the original video, a combination of environments inside and outside the café, with some resampling and re-enforcement.

Apparently without thinking, people do some extraordinarily dangerous things when they're out and about but still, it's good to see all the little movements, idiosyncratic gestures, gait, reactions and odd decisions that determine everyone's future.

Also, observe how apparently disconnected elements in the world outside the window appear to be in sync with the music and sounds inside. This is almost always the case.

Title typeface is Modernist Stencil by Keith Bates at K-Type: http://www.k-type.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• pedestrians
• pedestrian
• crossing
• road
• vehicles
• jazz