I’m interested in how to show all of the frames at different levels of scale/zoom/abstraction. Here’s a rendering of a sort of zoom into the video (you may need to manually scrub through this to understand it):
I understand this and I love that zooming is possible in part thanks to the multigrid/columnar layout. It’s interesting how certain videos lend themselves to this kind of approach more than others. Again, beware the case of the talking heads!
In an exhibition context, I imagine this as a body-controlled interface, and one that should be experienced in rather the reverse order: as you get closer to (“approach”) the image (projection? large TV/monitor?), you start seeing more and more frames, smaller and smaller. In a way, moving closer takes you to the “truth” of the video—a series of frames—but adds a critical-rational distance that makes it nearly impossible to parse/understand.
Brilliant! I agree with this approach: closer = more frames. It is interesting because I’ve been focused a lot on whether we’ll be completing this film in 4K resolution or 2K, and a lot of the arguments against 4K, besides expense, are that no one can see the difference from 2K past a certain distance threshold. Not quite the same thing, but similar. Would there be a zoom level in which you simply see the video playing in real time? I imagine that would be the furthest distance for the viewer—sort of like focus set to infinity.