It makes for a kind of slow-motion narrative, its 67 short chapters cutting the day into moments charged with the significance of memory.
In just 49 seconds, filmmaker Qanta Shimizu sweeps viewers into the succinct stop-motion narrative of Grandfather's Match Case.
We watched movies, music videos, documentaries to see what was sticking with the video and the pace of the track; camera moves, slow motions, narrative techniques.
Anything goes, from straight-up art to animation, music videos, motion graphics, narrative and non-narrative work, or even entirely new art forms (that should be interesting).
But even better were his forays into dramatized criticism: close reading set in motion as narrative.
Avedon also extended motion into narrative, in a way that seemed prescient of 1980s picture art.
He's a stylist of forward motion, placing narrative acceleration above inconveniences like pronouns and helping verbs.
That process began to set the story in motion and the narrative evolved out of the characters' past and their future.
The narrative motion is tricky; first it canters, then shifts into a heady, quick gallop.
Yet there's continuous, narrative motion to each track; each one ends up far different from where it started, traveling a long way in the fog.
