Friday, February 20

My idea:

1. INT. BLUE BEDROOM -- NIGHT

The BLUE MATTRESS on the floor with a LAMP on the floor beside it. ERIN (names here refer to characters not particular actors) is in bed with TAROT CARDS.

MICHAEL enters. Erin begins to tell Michael about the significator she has chosen for him and in so doing is forced to share her disparaging observations of his character. At some point we cut to a shot that leaves an off screen space for a moviepainter to access the actors (a second camera records this person), with the lamp in shot.

BOTH:
Tap = Deliver line
Squeeze = Turn on/off lamp

At some point when the lamp is on it begins to flicker and then goes out entirely. BLACKOUT! In the darkness the room is full of people who together make music (soundpainted).

2. INT. MAINROOM -- EARLIER and LATER

Earlier, eating dinner, and later, eating cookies, we all discuss the scene, how to make it better, the project and movies in general, etc. We stick strictly to a pre-decided seating arrangement, the chairs do not move and the same people sit in the same places always, leaving empty spaces for those who are not present on particular nights.

- Repeat for eight nights with changes (of actors, props, dialogue, shots, sound, puppeteers, conductors, directors, camera operators, etc.).
- On the ninth night shoot Alex, Aurora and George moving in (mythological correspondence: to receive knowledge of the runes, Odin hanged from Yggdrasil, the world tree, for nine days and nine nights, offering himself to himself, in literal self-sacrifice).
- Post fragments online as we edit; screen rough cut with live musical accompaniment on the last week of March.

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