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Juan Azulay, Instructor and Ed Keller, Program Coordinator

The contemporary city is more than ever defined in the wake of a relation game of continuities and discontinuities, visibilities and invisibilities arguably best characterized by William James as 'reality falling in passing'.

The Spring 2008 MediaScapes Studio, through the study, conceptualization and conjectural positioning of Los Angeles as the product of a series of recurring 'nested genetic doubles' will exorcise an encounter for forces of matter seen and unseen, extended over a time-based narrative machine.

The Fogbank emerges through those who seek to track the ethical force we use to navigate its peculiar density. Previous models for Fogbank navigation couplings have been shown on Chris Marker's "The Zone" in Sans Soleil, Palahniuk's "Fight Club" in Fincher's Fight Club or Godard-Lang's "Ulysses" in Godard's Contempt. These are organizations of time and matter that proactively drive from nested mechanisms, precarious genetic codes that can alter matter and bend with it as it is instantly inscribed in culture.

There will be writing, mapping, modeling, art direction, shooting, vfx/animation, coding, blogging, editing and performing components to the project. Knowledge of filmmaking and/or visual narrative is a plus but not necessary, commitment to around the clock work, unfamiliar schedules and insatiable curiosity for Los Angeles (even in the form of hatred), a requirement.

3 Minute Still Frame Film | February 20, 2008

Premise: To construct a 3 minute film with stills written, photographed, edited, post-produced, sound designed by student.
Duration: 1 Week
Objective: First past at directorial goal, to lock in a spatio-temporal narrative coupling with a series of still images within single and multi threaded storylines, set in Los Angeles.

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About the Video at the top of this page

Pockets of Los Angeles where illicit activity/transactions can exist, thrive, and birth even more vices and sins


C1: we meet in the alley behind the museum

It's dark and still moist
It must have rained earlier. I don't know I must have slept through it
I go in
Deeper
Deeper
An eerie feeling overcomes me

I cross my first threshold. The first of many I suppose It smells like bum piss

The cavity opens up
A breath of fresh air

Breathing wall
Is this real?

Can't be Corners
Vacant
Flickering

That feeling again
The floor becomes rubber under my feet
The feeling nauseating
Creaking I don't remember how I left

I get out; move in deeper
Deeper
I find myself in the underbelly of the city
Beneath the filthy streets
I find myself beneath the filthy city
Far away from society

Labyrinth
Escape Resurface
Icons
Subtle shifts
Tones, values, borders That feeling again
Everything black Confronted this wall
The building melts
I am displaced or the world is displaced around me
Walking waking cities the buildings are alive here


swallowed by
Alleys
Crevices Suffocation

I reach for a door It's closed

Video Composed for SCI-Arc MediaScapes program.