Ashen Wireless

Ashen Wireless from James Tubb on Vimeo.

As I have stated in a previous post, over the course of this project I have taken out camera equipment in order to familiarize myself with it. On one such occasion I was feeling pretty down, I felt a sense pointlessness, emptiness and felt distanced from everything. Rather than wallow in my room, I decided to put these feelings to constructive use and decided to make a film that captured those feelings.

The resulting film is Ashen Wireless and I am very pleased with how it turned out. I am particularly fond of the 'bad-TV' aesthetic, which creates a sense of distance between the audience and what is happening on screen. I also like how the film is designed to perfectly loop and I think I would make a good instillation piece. Overall I find the film darkly hypnotic and I can watch it on loop for quite some time, losing myself in the visuals and atmosphere.

I found the method I used very liberating, it was inspired by the method my friend Isaac had been using: Go to a location, film what seems interesting and then make an atmospheric film out of it. After shooting I spend sometime in a sound suite and created a suitable atmospheric audio track. I like this method, it's very relaxing, and I may use it again in the future.