CONSEQUENCE WORKS · Watson Hartsoe
Crash Lab
Films made as tests. Crash-test dummies, a drawn Odysseus and a paper poet, measured in a bay and set into archive film.
A report can say the knee hit the dashboard. The film shows it.
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OpenDramaturgy Crash LabFilter 191 crash tests by instrument and play any of them
OpenRange test and Video to BolasRun 54 range tests, or load a video of a person and get the same report
OpenThe PhysicalStep through 47 proofs and see which joints each one drives
OpenPencil testScrub every beat of three scenes, frame by frameFour channels
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Poem 07Poem 07, all twelve patches, made by the automatic pipeline: gestures cued by the words, heads chosen by the rig, plates made from his photographs.
Episode 7 · THE LOOPBook 13 as a loop: seven agents try to land the sleeping man on Ithaca and fail, until a grip holds, Athena compiles, and the old beggar is put together part by part.
CINEOSIS · Hand ButterThe making-of, performed in a screening room by the film's own cast: Bola and Shim show their work, and a blindfolded Critic judges the pictures without knowing what was meant.
Crash Lab132 vignettes in a measured bay: letters opened, shoulders touched, doors pushed, stairs missed, and the 32 Acting Arena challenges, each scored for weight, feet, hands and contact.How it was made: 18 case studies · Every character · All 26 films