Film of Changes, (or How I Free Myself with Rules), Individual work, UK

Transmedia Artist: Visual | Sound | Performance
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Film of Changes, (or How I Free Myself with Rules),

Individual work, UK
2022-2024

Documentary, Experimental Art

Medium: Generative art / Systematic / Audio-visual art

This film short investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy - I Ching, or book of changes. By writing bespoke coding language and combining this tool with traditional media landscapes like film and creative arts, and related hybrid forms to subvert I Ching’s predominant uses. This generative design audio-visual work encourages the unforeseen in the filming process, which is breaking the filmmaking rules, and relinquishing control from the filmmaker's decision. The outcomes are based on the speculation that there is a hunch in the film industry that a systematic approach to cinematic notation is possible but has yet to be developed. As such, filmmakers could use a system of symbols to build a story, just like the staves and notations used by musicians.