My private bokito
You're My Bokito
Short film for the EYE RESEARCH Lab
Desiring someone/somebody/something, but knowing there is a certain ‘wall’ between you and the object of desire.
And also enjoying this element vice versa, being visible and being the element of desire.
And what happens when that wall falls away?
Are the fascination and the fantasy underneath sometimes better than reality itself?
The short film 'You're My Bokito' invites us on an emotional thoughtproces where two unrelated events around desire are compressed in one expressive journey and asks the question: what do a grindr date that never happens and an silverback gorilla that tried to escape have in common?
Themes: desire, objectification
Keywords: social-media, online vs offline, predators, fantasy vs reality, identity
Planning / workflow:
- Week 41: starting with the first 'seed' of the idea: the story of Bokito. Researching certain newspapers/items about this event. + setting up the first guidelines of design for this project.
- Week 42: Researching the phenomenom of 'desire' and 'objectification'
- Week 43: Writing poems, first texts, recording some voice samples
- Week 44: Shooting some first shots
- Week 45: Starting to experiment with voice-over and image
- Week 46: Re-evaluating the design process. Making a plan for missing footage and elements of content that still need to be covered.
- Week 47: Shooting/filming/recording
- Week 48: Editing
- Week 49: Editing
- Week 50: Sound-design
- Week 51: Holliday break - Editing / sound-design
- Week 52: Holliday break - Editing / sound-design
- Week 2: 9th of january: deadline
To watch:
- Chris marker
- Sans soleil
- Samsara
- Jonas Mekas
- A Twist in the fabric of space
- As I was moving ahead I saw brief glimpses of beauty
- An Oversimplification of Her Beauty