The Symphony of a Dream World
Pictogram
MA Qingzhou, Cyan 馬青洲
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media
Abstract
My pictogram compares the experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon, to music scores, in terms of their looping nature. The logical and highly organized system of repetition in music scores to me also depicts the rich vertical and horizontal dimensions of the film.
In this pictogram, the four movements serve as both time and space of the narration in Meshes. From bottom to top, the escalation indicates the structure of scenes and the heroine’s route: the road–first floor–second floor. And the sequence of the score is a step-to-step depiction of the horizontal content of the film, which concerns the breaking up and reordering of the linear process of each iteration of repetition.
Dream is the journey of exploring one’s deeper inner self, a world in which time and space may have very different measures. The dream world does not follow logic and rules in reality. Here, time distorts, flows backward, loops, leaps, faults; space displaces, extends, self-copies, becomes a plane, … …
