The camera positions itself as a convex surface that envelopes what is filmed. It is the creation of a certain kind of geometry – the empty house, the planning for how it could be, the fragmented frames of what it would be, and the erotic imagery of the wife. It is an equation, an arrangement, a set of relations given these elements. And from that set emerges a horror that presents itself with meanings.
Perhaps an erotic anxiety of the general state of the relationship, the move to a new house as a hopeful act seeking stability?
The inverse: erotic anxiety produced by the new, significant possibility of the move?
A general anxiety (explicit by the literal gnawing), as a result, the wandering around the room becomes mobile stasis, and erotic breaks as temporary reliefs that don’t resolve anything.
The arrangement produces a possible set of (non-exclusive) meanings. Its status is that of a possibility set. The form is of a vlog, and it is inspiring that something we associate with commercial, non-original content can be transformed into something singular: an ode to form.
Postscript: Notes on Arrangement
1. After a certain point, an increasing number of convex shots where the wife situates herself behind the husband, and both as if a tenuous connected entity.
2. A signature shot: the helical movement down the vertical axis, inverts the camera around the wife’s skirt, films the inverted upwards, and moves up.
3. The change of tone from white to White, once that planning is underway.