Below is the abstract for my presentation at the upcoming AUT University Postgraduate Conference of the School of Art & Design. The seminar will be held in the week of 2 - 6 August 2010.
Borderland: Exploring the blurred frontier between reality and illusion in a short film text
This project investigates the borderland between reality and illusion and considers how this might be communicated in an animated short film. The term borderland suggests a state of delusional perception or hallucination in which an individual cannot distinguish between consensually agreed reality and subjective illusion.
Future practice and study will test a range of narrative and audiovisual hypotheses concerning the coherent communication of a ‘borderland’ state to an audience. A narrative about a man searching for the end of his reoccurring nightmare constitutes the creative framework within which these experiments will be conducted.
The presentation will give a definition of terms, discuss key concepts and contexts and explain applied methodologies. After a synopsis of the narrative it will present initial testing of hypotheses of visual transitions between the two states of perception that transport the audience from the depicted reality into the protagonist’s subjective realm of illusion.
(see also the permanent collection of abstracts)
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