Do you think you feel, or feel you think?
Mise en Abyme, or "Setting in the abyss" - a story within a story - an image within an image - but memory has no shelf life.
Paris. Summer.
Guy carries a camera with him and uses it to prove his hypotheses. He edits the footage, proves his points, and trusts it more than himself.
One day, that camera is taken away from him. The filter removed. The dam is broken. Guy has a mental condition, long forgotten about and squashed by a lifetime of social conditioning and distrust of self. When he loses his camera, he starts seeing...sounds. Letters have colors. Colors have emotions. Everything starts coming back.
Guy doesn't know if what he feels is real anymore. Lost in a landscape of images and sensations, Guy navigates through a cloud of recorded images, experiences, and his own memory, as he learns to deal his own subjective experience.
This project was inspired by research done into Synesthesia.
Synesthesia: A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
1:2000 to 1:20,000 people have synesthesia, but most don't know it. It is not a detrimental condition, in fact synesthetes can't imagine living life without it. It is an enhanced way of perceiving the world. The project has been deeply involved with the community of people with synesthesia, and we are drawing on their own experiences greatly to ensure the authenticity of the experiences created with VFX.
The film is in the can, everything is shot. We are now heading into post-production and need help from all of you. Join in on working on the first narrative film to represent the condition of Synesthesia.
Duration: ~ 29 min.
Format: S35mm, 16mm, PixelVision, DV, S8mm, Still Photos
