Black and white first person perspective

In Black & White there are two types of imagery: video footage of surfaces and spaces such as walls and doorways, and static computer-generated graphics. There are points when the origin of the material that you see seems clear, but a change in focus or a cut to another perspective often throws the image into doubt. In many ways the piece is a minimalist investigation of assumptions regarding the aesthetics of virtual reality.

Is reality a life long dream? This movie has a perspective on that.

This is a film about people or is there really "black" and "white"?

A short-film in 35 mm, black > white stages a day in which the main character discovers that she stopped seeing in color. Written as photographer’s film, it was shot on several locations in Lisbon. It is the only purely fiction work by the author.

Black on White Tape begins with the camera pointing down at the floor where a roll of white tape is laid on top of a roll of black tape. Haxton enters the frame, picks up the white tape,and beginning at the lower left of the frame, tapes a line up along the left frame. He draws a line on the right,and then horizontal lines at the bottom and top, making a trapezoid. The re-iteration of horizontal and vertical frame lines inside the picture emphasizes the flatness of the projected image against the three-dimensionality of the experience of the room interior. There appears to be perceptual distortion: the top horizontal is wider than the bottom one, destroying the conventional perspective of spatial representation and reinforcing the flatness of the frame. This equivocation between flatness and spatiality is intensified by a cut to negative.

A black male dancer in a white room, white noise and variable shutter speeds in camera editing, reflections on dance, race, the gaze, the OTHER, play, voyeurism and spontaneous response.