CRASH LAB

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.

Watch the crash lab Move the dummies yourself

Try it

interactive pages: every figure is computed in your browser

OpenInteractive runs in your browserDramaturgy Crash LabFilter 191 crash tests by instrument and play any of themOpenInteractive runs in your browserRange test and Video to BolasRun 54 range tests, or load a video of a person and get the same reportOpenInteractive runs in your browserThe PhysicalStep through 47 proofs and see which joints each one drivesOpenInteractive runs in your browserPencil testScrub every beat of three scenes, frame by frame

All five interactive pages

Four channels

FAM 3 filmsThe Crash-Test FamilyBola, Shim and little Dot CIN 8 filmsCINEOSISthe family performs the 45 signs ODY 11 filmsThe Found Odysseyone book of the Odyssey per episode AFL 21 versionsAfterlightfilms about what light leaves behind WYG 4 filmsWYGWYLWhere You Go When You Leave · the cel layer

This Side Up

everything made of cardboard cut-outs

TSU 10 case studiesThis Side UpBoone, a handmade cardboard puppet, cut into parts and set into worlds where time stops for everything except him. How each film was made, with something to try.

PAELEO

prompt · ekphrasis · operation

PAE a new channel · 8 films · 54 swarmsPAELEOPromptable Augmented Environments Lab · Ekphrastic Operations. Descriptions that act on worlds: the first film is a paper dog that can refuse, and you can try to earn its trust. Then six swarms make the same scene from the bottom up.PAE-03 · 04 flour sacks · 16 filmsFlour SacksDisney’s flour-sack test, twice. One sack holds up a tower of flour, made by six swarms in six languages. Then four sacks in Calvino’s burned house, and a film bank that can play any of its 8.9 trillion stories.

ALLWAYS · Cinema from the rest of the frame · 59 new SCION prompt specifications · 055–113

Latest tests

every film has a test number, a logline and its notes

WYG-01 1:38Poem 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. ODY-E7 6:47Episode 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. CIN-05 4:01CINEOSIS · 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. FAM-03 19:21Crash 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