At any given
moment in time, we are faced with a decision. It could be mundane
or life altering. It could have an immediate effect, or it could
have a long-term effect. What many of us don't realize is that every
choice, of every moment, of every day, is all of these. At once
mundane and life altering – perhaps not our own, but down
the road someone will be affected by a decision we made seconds,
minutes, hours, days, weeks, years ago. And of course, we are affected
by the choices made by others.
The mechanics of choice are here, as characters, divided into three
categories: Preference, Possibility, and Consequence. These three
elements form the basis of all decisions made by anyone, anywhere,
at anytime. In this film they are people, moving forward, making
choices based solely on these premises; in staccato repetition,
in reaction to a changing topography, and in pure awareness of affecting
a particular outcome.
We follow portions of their day, as they eventually, through their
actions and those of others, find themselves at the same table sharing
a drink and conversation. Here, they are no longer disparate elements
working individually to influence decision. They are now a whole
concept; discrete elements in a massively dynamical system where
small decisions made by an individual can have a large impact on
vast numbers of people; and the dynamics of this system change with
every passing second.
Upon reflection, one sees that our movement forward in time becomes
less a path, and more an array of possible futures, laid out before
us, and ever changing; through our own decisions, and the choices
of those we may never meet. Yet, in the end there will be only one
path, however crooked.
Our project is a meditation on the forces that influence our journey
through time and space, as we navigate the twists and turns of a
world that is perpetually, and necessarily, in flux.
Chris Giuffré, Andrew Hawthorne, & Wes Pratt
May 2006 |
