Immediately following assignment 3, I had an overarching feeling that the overall situation I wanted to document involved exploring more facets about lingering; to detail lingering in natural terms and also manmade terms.

However, of course, this idea did pivot. Making a pivot from the idea of lingering on water to these thoughts about documenting sport, or squash – which I would argue were inspired by this initial video that I filmed while in class – (vimeo video link) have me essential at square one in terms of the understanding I feel I need to gain, and the research, in total that I’ll need to do. I first explored non-fiction videos of sports in general, thinking squash would be hard to find, looking into tennis as well, but overall I did find a few pieces that, to me, I felt would serve as reasonable research for this assignment.

The Tennis Wall is a non-fiction piece layered in emotive qualities, perhaps more than anything I will do will, but in the same way the filmmaker loves the sound of the Tennis ball hitting the wall, I found the use of audio quite great here.

I also found this video, Scattered Squash, really wild and innovative, though so simple in it’s design, lingering on the same shot, increasingly layered and increasingly choatic in it’s visual and audio nature. I think it would be a style of layering that is also worth exploring, though I’m not exactly sure how to do it in such a way that wouldn’t be too much like mimicking this completely.

I think in this searching I also found videos, without much to offer, that were in ways more just like self aggrandising in a sense, more than being a non-fiction piece, per se.