This videodrone was shot near Chelsea Market in Manhattan during mid-2022. I’d been shooting through every window I could find for another short film and as I set up my camera for the shot a dragonfly happened to be enjoying the same view. By messing with the playback speed I discovered that cues in the video could align closely with developments in the song, and the resulting frame rate reduction gave an animation-like quality to the live-action subjects.
During down time while working on a musical in nyc I would get bored and program in bizarro patches on the beat-up GT-10 I used for corporate gigs. Mostly nobody cared except for the time I made a world-ending synth explosion during some important dialogue. Luckily everyone seemed to think it was a catastrophic failure happening elsewhere in the building. That patch later developed into the one in this piece.
For this video I wanted to aggregate as many portals as possible from different locations and then see if the loosely curated pool of footage from a simple conceptual guide could be sequenced into a narrative. At first I mostly just wanted windows and indoor-to-outdoor views, but the definition of ‘portal’ opened up a lot as I found ways to cheat my own conept in the interest of getting compelling shots.