Using the research-creation process, students were tasked to explore at least one key aspect of expanded cinema, such as participation, immersion, formal qualities of the medium, perception/reception, active space, light & movement, performance, sound, etc.
Expanded cinema often involves active participation and live forms which recontextualize the viewers sense of environment. It offers immersive qualities which inform the perception of the viewer and challenge the fixed conditions of conventional cinema. It operates under the scope of avant-garde art, outside of medium specific confines, differs from classical narrative structures, and captures cinematic properties in forms which create a psychological impact.
Entitled “Door Number 3,” this interactive video engages with the idea of life, death, and anything in-between. With visual depictions of environments intended to display surrealistic qualities which signal an altered state of existence, light is used to differentiate the different environments and act as transitional markers between scenes.