INFLUORESCENT

“Influorescent”, my first term design project, was an interdisciplinary endeavour which involved the establishment of a design-mediated experimental film-making practice. Equipped with an assembled arsenal of carefully considered bespoke apparatus, interventions, and film-making logics, an interconnected series of 7 otherwise unattainable short films was produced. Sparing no first principle of film from re-imagination, and reinterpretation, the ostensible limitations of available resources, and those seemingly inherent to the medium itself were all rejected.

This string of experiments culminated in the final entry entitled “Influorescent”, a purgative, critical expression of what I had subjectively forwarded as the urban condition’s attendant ineffable dysphoria. This film, however, is left incomplete if not properly contextualised by the unique situation of its final performance - the ancient woodland of Flimwell. In the spirit of Charlie Kaufman, the bespoke Flimwell forest cinema installation enabled not only the film’s performance to an audience, but the film’s resolution in real time. The resolution being the performance itself. (The Bartlett School of Architecture, Architecture BSc, Year 3, Project 1, Fall 2019)