Disorienting cinema examines the notion of relocating the moving images to
places other than the screen and the static theater, especially rethinking ideas for the moving image in dynamic and mobile places. In particular it examines how cinema (particularly
those with some form of narative) might be constructed in an elevator.
The basic premise of this project is that as an elevator moves up and down the film pans horizontally. I.e. the cinema unfolds between
two places horizontally the same distance apart as it takes the elevator to go up form Floor 0 to the top floor. Since we have a captive audience,
it is possible to unfold the narrative story over months. So let us say that for the first 7 days nothing happens except that the camera pans
back and forth between the two end point. On day eight a character appears and so on. I imagine the movie to be silent (there might be something nice to return to this state.)
Alternately, this can also work in real time (a form of surveillance), so that the camera pans in real time on some track between 2 points as the elevator moves up and down.
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