Narrative

The poem plays line by line. The large image is the shot the engine chose for the moment; the wall is every shot it weighed, moving, ordered by confidence. The ribbon under the line shows how that confidence was spread: one long gold segment means the archive answered decisively; many small ones mean many shots could carry the line.

Touch a shot on the wall to try it. The line waits. Keep it, and the film is composed again around your choice: one place where the film went otherwise because somebody saw a difference and acted.

The voice can be the poet's recording, a Piper voice in step with it, or both at once.

Space play · Left/Right line · V voice · G only the pictures · W words in the grid · K keep · Esc back · T another take · F full screen · ?museum=1 loops and lets the frame fall away · &grid=1 opens on the pictures

Part of the Markov Poet, from the Cineosis Lab.