Rejoice

“Paradoxically, science fiction is rarely about time. And it is almost never about space. It takes both as a given, infinitely extendable categories, pictured as almost wholly under human control-- and thus, almost wholly unproblematic, even invisible. (It is often about what you can find in them-the specifics of history-but that is something else.) What science fiction often is about is scale, and it uses that infinite fields of time and space to reimagine the past as well as the future.”
-Samuel R. Delany

Last night/today was semi-productive. I finally made the weird crystal enclosure I have been dreaming about. I am not even sure what it is quite for yet. One thing that I have been going back and forth on how to make is the “Oracle/orifice,” and I think the crystal is some kind of communication device. I promised myself that I would, as R. Crumb says, reveal things to myself. The oracle is hard to explain right now, but it has to do with realizing fantasy as integral to psychic development. I was watching Chris Marker's San Soleil which I had never seen before, and I really liked it. “I've been around the world several times now, and now only banality still interests me.” That's what his narrator was interested in, but that's not what mine is looking for. I can tell that this narrator is starting to take voice, even now. You are reading it.
I met with DN who is doing the sound compositions and he always asks me what I will be shooting, and,of course, I can never be straightforward. “Oh just some gay sex and other stuff.” I also met with Brian, who is helping with electronics. He'll be programming an Arduino to control 24 LEDs to blink alternately, and at different levels of brightness. I'll be using the LEDs to construct a light box to illuminate photo transfers.



Sans Soleil
The idea is to simulate the look of film, but without the same kind of movement. I think that Marker uses taxidermied animals as a metaphor for film and its manipulations of time; stuck and mysterious. His favorite animals are cats and owls, and his first name is actually Christian.
Still no actors.