Little Dieter Needs to Fly
In describing the door, explanation of why he opens and closes the door, Dieter becomes both the captor and captive in this few seconds. The freeze framing allows us to see both roles side by side, Dieter simultaneously Pathet Lao/Viet Cong and himself as a prisoner. As such, the door could be/should be experienced from the perspective of the captor and captive simultaneously as one engages with it, fluidly moving between both roles, free and unfree.
Vertical III
University of British Columbia
Instructor—Thena Tak
W2019
Opening the front door, impression from carbon paper.
Original drawing on carbonic paper
Final composite drawing, overlaying the simultaneity of experiences through the act of opening and closing the door. It is an overlay of my own drawing and iteration of feeling Dieter’s experience, hybrid digital/hand drawing.
Initial exploration of cutting and pasting sequence frames according to relative angles from camera level datums, trying to tie the derivatives of film-making to derivatives of memory.
First drawing after watching Werner Herzog’s Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1998) twice. It is a stream of consciousness and freethought developed by recalling, drawing, associating, drawing, recalling, ad infinitum.