S E Q U E N T I A L   C I R C U I T S   / /   U N B R E A K A B L E   F O U N D A T I O N   ( 5 : 0 3 )

After watching a member of Radiohead gradually chalk up an image in disparate pieces during a livestream, I expanded that idea to make an inexpensive, but hopefully interesting music video.

It took five days to shoot, on a light and camera stage improvised from household lamps, held in place with available furniture around a whiteboard, to create consistent and shadow-free illumination.

Editing was highly confusing in places. Not only was my mind juggling filming, combining and timing the many sequences in multi-layered synchronisation, but the laptop I used was similarly struggling to portray my vision given the amount of simultaneous and re-timed streams it had to play back. This was especially true for the building climax, during which the computer initially gave up completely. Working around it, I rendered the tiled videos out as a single video, imported it back in, deleted the separate ones and repeated the process, leaving the poor machine far fewer videos to play at once.

With the instrumental track being from my first album, I made the video autobiographical. It tells, intentionally cryptically, the story of an extremely non-typical experience I had in New Zealand once, hence the Southern Cross. A scene as if from a movie, that I can recall clearly even after decades.

Happy to have survived, that hard-won joy is what this film – and, possibly my life – is about.