// * Calculating_our_options, we_talked_about * //
C:\ [Raid 1] clandestine_surveillance, sleeplessness;
D:\ [Raid 2] digital_account_protocols, stolen_cars;
E:\ [Raid 3] handwritten_code, avarice_and_betrayal {who_is_working_the_numbers, keeping_track_of_time?};
V:\ [Raid 4] execution, small_arms_fire (countersunk_beleaguered); {will_there_be_backup_when_we_are_zeroed_to_baseline?}.
RAID-4 is a form of data back-up protocol that writes files across multiple drives. But here, following the heist, the data my be corrupted, a crime may have been committed, shots may have been fired…
Filmed mostly around the Belair and Blackwood areas of greater Adelaide, the video uses several composition and animation techniques including text animations and special effects I made myself.
• screened at the 6th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, January, 2018;
• selected for Moving Poems Weekly Digest (USA, January, 2018).
HEIST (RAID 4) [C:\ We were] > calculating_our_options; > careful_how_we_placed_our_feet; > congested_decongested; > fingertip_to_fingertip_rollyourowns; > humming_along_with_perfect_fifths; > hungry_for_the_thirsty_for; > impatient_past_sleeplessness; > mirrored_in_chrome; > neither_passengers_nor_pedestrians; > observed_by_no_one_as_yet_known_to_us; > bullnosed_leatherjacketed; > west_westnorthwest_fading; > virtual_portraiture. [D:\ We talked about] > conspiracy_theory; > digital_radio_transmission_protocol; > diodes; > Fijian_coral_Caribbean_oil; > Georges_Perec; > girlfriends_boyfriends; > hotdogs_tacos_beefsteak_pies; > jewellery_within_an_ebony_box; > legal_tender_polymer_exchange; > political_decay; > stolen_cars_stealing_cars; > the_determination_of_time; > Trout_Fishing_in_America. [E:\ We did not notice] > acceleration_due_to_gravity; > another_handwritten_message; > Bayesian_improbability; > charcoal_or_the_smell_of_gunpowder; > cutprice_beer; > floodlit_migrating_moths; > freshly_struck_matches; > inverse_trigonometric_ratios; > kisses_behind_the_bus_shelter; > laserlines_pulsed_red_infrared; > roaches_lost_between_pavers; > synthetic_hair_mascara_eyeshadow; > two_final_bells. [V:\ Then we became] > at_first_light_executable; > backgrounded_blindsighted_broken_up; > gloriously_bedazzling_diamantine; > homing_pigeon_golden_goose_squab; > irrational_numbers; > manuflected_countersunk; > mortars_cannonballs_small_arms_fire; > newsworthy_hopelessly_out_of_our_depth; > surgically_reconstructed; > together_confined_in_solitary; > verging_on_the_bulletproof; > wastrels_beleaguered; > zeroed_to_baseline.