Is a bit longer than 5 minutes, sorry. In this clip I am testing out some different editing techniques, some different sound design – including some foley, some atmosphere, some voice-over and some scoring – and an attempt at subtitling, but this is the area I’m currently the most stuck on. I also need to come up with ways to make these kind of clips have a more extended structure, and not become to repetitive – I think some archive would be useful for this, and have tried to contact some people about using their archive. I am also thinking as a subtle nod to Walter Benjamin I will have a motif of wind throughout the run-time, starting with a light wind and culminating in a storm, signifying the Benjamin quote about Klee’s Angelous Novus:
There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair , to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm.
Anyway, here is the clip:
Conor McBride 