Separate Incidents

Separate Incidents is composed of a series of long takes which are subsequently modified by a recurring device: the intrusion of objects into the frame precipitates a camera pan which questions the significance of the preceding shots and consequently assumes an inflated importance itself. The intrusions may be irrelevant but can be read as sequential events in travel through landscape, and the film is cut to imply this possible connection, supporting particular relationships between events, imposing a linear continuity. However, the film is simultaneously designed to deny this convention, the events are separate incidents.
The film was shot entirely on super-8 which I then optically stretch-printed to enhance colour and blur. The film uses devices like the pan, blur, shot length, framing, associated sound effects and editing strategies conventionally and unconventionally so that the vehicles through which meaning is produced in film are additionally used here to foreground their presence, or become the subject. – A.R.