This class asked us to both take risks in what experimental imaging could be, and how we could explore photography and video as methods and mediums. Over the course of the week, we continued to push our own interests as well as experiment with different capturing techniques with our cameras.

Early on we were fascinated by capturing phenomenon at points in time where we can’t normally see them with the naked eye. We observed what water would look like at 1/1600th of a second, and surprisingly our images demonstrated a different behaviour of water than what we are familiar with. This initial experiment led us to iterate trials with other liquid mediums, and we continued to push our knowledge of how these mediums intersected each other.

In our final video we experimented with stop motion and high-speed capture as our aesthetic base, and how these two methods could be combined together. After several filming sessions, our idea evolved into creating a short film that could loop continuously, with more focus on scene transitions through materials and space-time perception manipulation.

The use of stop motion allowed us to create illusions of one real-time frame blending in with a previous one, creating the perception that the “current” reality had been mixed and looped within one scene to itself in the “future.” The result was a series of multiple scenes seemingly unrelated but brought together by the continuum of time and shared material imagery.