Points of View

The film takes place in one room. A sequence of separate shots is filmed from a static camera position, but for each shot the camera’s direction and angle of view is changed, until a continuous space in the room is covered by the sequence of shots. In each part of the film a different system determines the camera’s successive points of view, changing the spectator’s experience of spatial dimensions and topographical relations.
A silent black and white sequence pre-figures each colour sequence. The black and white sections act as rough diagrams, or clues, to the camera strategy to be used in the next colour section. During the colour sequences three people are in the room speaking. They talk about subjective experience of the physical and cultural environment in the city, using language which tends to be non-specific and metaphoric. Abstract statements are literalised by counter statements and the film operations themselves.
In this film my intention was to suggest a spatial and temporal unity at the same time as dis-unifying it, drawing attention to the fiction of the pro-filmic space/time. -J.K.