I’ve always found that creating restrictions inspires some of my most creative moments. When I have access to everything I need to make something crisp and perfect, things don’t always turn out as interesting or impactful. I think I learned the most about creating art studying experimental film, because my professor restricted our work to 1:30 in length and enforced other restrictions based on the assignment. Lately I’ve been struggling to feel creative, so the other day I came up with this idea to create :30 video diaries, similar to the video diaries I made in my experimental class—except even shorter. If you are interested in the ones I made in my class, they can be found on the “experimental films” page and I’m including one down below as well. I’ve always admired the work of Anne Charlotte Robertson so slightly channeling her in this project.
I’ve made two of these :30 second diaries so far — one from my day exploring Governor’s Island in NYC and the other pieced together from random commute footage. We’ll see where it goes from here.