AUTHOR: OPERATOR  //  FILE: notes.txt  //  INTEGRITY: FRAGMENTARY

1. start with the light after everyone has gone.
2. one plate made from every frame i nearly deleted.
3. the glasses without the person wearing them.
4. nine hours of setup for eleven seconds that stay.
5. film the part before the thing starts.
6. what does the room sound like when the projector is off.
7. what does a room sound like after everyone leaves and the lights are still up.
8. the smear. keep the smear. everyone says cut the smear.
9. is there a version of the october set that is just the eleven seconds i keep cutting.
10. put the rejected plates in order by how long i defended them.
11. a mark with hair and glasses and nothing useful between them.
12. ask someone what they think the work is about before telling them. do not tell them. see how long it can go.
13. the contact sheet as the finished thing.
14. every caption i removed, printed at the size of the work.
15. the long exposure. use this for something one day.
16. a piece that is only the part where i am deciding.
17. one clean frame surrounded by every attempt to reach it.
18. make the approval stamp larger than the image.
19. what if the whole set is one plate and it takes forty minutes.
20. leave the render light on in an empty room.
21. the first bad idea after the last good one.
22. write down which part i would change if nobody could see the change.
23. why do i always resolve it. ask this again when not tired.
24. asked it again. still tired. still do not know.
25. the mistake before i name it a style.
26. show the queue and none of the output.
27. colour is a voice. only give it to something that is speaking.
28. the same room at two, three, four, and five, with nothing entering it.
29. keep one thing that takes longer to explain than to make.
30. a folder named after the answer and nothing inside it.
31. make one thing this year that i cannot defend.
32. the eleven drafts left unsent, counted and not opened.
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34. what does approval look like before anybody gives it.
35. use the ugly crop.
36. make the title arrive before the work deserves it.
37. the bus ride as a unit of production.
38. make one thing this year that i cannot defend.
39. do not fix the flicker until i know what it is doing.
40. what is the nine hours for.