http://www.embres.ca/exhibit/watchthefilm/

Korsakow film Ceci N’est Pas Embres by Matt Soar

This is a website Hannah mentioned in the tutorial. It is quite an inspiration in planning my first sketch film in an non-linear way of presentation. Matt’s K-film ‘Ceci N’est Pas Embres‘ is composed with three seasons of winter, spring and summer. Every clips in each group will have the same in- and out- keyword of that particular season. In order to link between three seasons, one clip within the group has an out- keyword of the next season. That is, for example, a clip in the winter group will have an in- keyword of winter that associates it with all other winter clips, yet its out- keyword is spring then viewer will move from winter grouping to the spring grouping.

As Matt Soar said, most of us, most of the time, used to think about things as a storytelling in a linear form with beginnings/ causes, middles and ends/effects. In making Korsakow film, clips are associated not in the traditional way of storytelling, but keywords which there isn’t a definite combination, instead various connection over time.

Making a random K-film sounds quite easy by using one keyword which links in- and out- of all video clips. All the clips will be associated with one another. Yet, creating a linear K-film is completely different. There are a designated start SNU and end SNU. Each clip will have a different in-keyword which is the out-keyword of the previous clip. That means, there will be a route when going through the film. As for a multi-linear K-film, I reckon it feels like touching on a bit randomness and a bit linearity. We need to put similar things together in a group and then find out the connection between various groups.

I found it quite interesting that how I as a viewer can click and go through the video clips without a single second of thought.