After filming the tram footage and reflecting upon it, I thought that at least for now I’d continue gathering draft footage on an iPhone to expand my concept. I think that iPhone footage in this instance is actually quite effective as it is possibly more suited to the spontaneity that my concept requires than a full-blown camera and lighting setup might be. I have taken to filming this draft footage in portrait to make the use of an iPhone instantly recognisable. Beyond the spontaneity of this method, I think the iPhone represents the modern perspective due to its ubiquity and the modern obsession with experiencing the world vicariously through it, so to base abstract and alternate perspectives in the use of an iPhone I think is quite relevant.

Anyway, here’s another bit of footage that I felt compelled to capture after stumbling upon the perspective. It portrays a dog in a yard through a wire screen, and as the video continues, I pulled backwards slowly with the camera to draw the focus away from the wire screen and towards the dog and the yard. I was quite steady in filming this, which I think communicated the idea well. What it resembles for me is a perspective in which the world can be seen in pixels – where the start of the video displays quite a low resolution world which by the end has slightly improved in quality.

I think that this deconstructs the world in the same way that the tram footage did. Since this perspective reimagines the world as a lower resolution than that which we perceive, it offers the viewer the chance to imagine a world that is even more crisp and “real” than our own.

Wire Screen (Pixels) from Timothy Palstra on Vimeo.