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Sunrise: A Dérive of Two Humans

Description: This project was completed as a group. We were given the task of editing a film we had studied to communicate a theory from class. We selected Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Debord’s theory of the dérive. We collaborated on the approach and revisions, but I largely completed the video editing. My two group members wrote the accompanying statement, which I have provided for context.

 

Location: Toronto, Ontario

 

Completed: November 6, 2023
“To the extent that the dérive represents subjective “psychogeographical articulations of a modern city” (Debord, 66), we turn towards Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and remove its linear, dramatic and narrative elements to create a compilation of memories. The term psychogeographical interests us as it calls upon memory as an important medium to interpret space, with its spontaneous and disjointed, often illogical flow. With this in mind, we replaced the original score and rearranged the sequence of events. In addition, we minimized physical boundaries by including very few shots of movement between spaces, making transitions from similar actions and visuals instead to draw those connections. In Sunrise: A Dérive of Two Humans, the two characters participate in acts of remembering by moving through urban attractions in a rapid and dreamlike sequence. Mapping in this dérive thus becomes psychological, articulating the city in the film through the characters’ subjective, emotional memory and creating a narrative defined by this remembering.”

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