824 (1999, 12 mins)

824 | 1999 | 12 MINS | 16MM | B&W

SYNOPSIS:
Fisher Black is a renaissance man at the end of the millennium. He fears not the future or what he would do and fears not the past and what he has done. There is no word for what he is… what he has become… in his final moments…

“What am I learning? Can you see me? Look at what I’ve done.”

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SELECT CREDITS:
produced & directed by chris ohlson
narration written by chris ohlson & kiley lambert
narrated by kiley lambert
original music composed by hannah fury
photographic effect by ed searles – frameshop
post production facilities – duplass brothers productions

THE ORIGINAL 824 THOUGHT:
We fade in on the facade of the building. It’s a frontal view, exposing a very graph-like rectangular set of windows and the many floors the building holds.
Ever so slowly, the camera begins to creep inward, toward the center of the building. It seems to take an eternity for the perspective to change at all, until all at once, the camera seems to have focused on an eighth floor window, where room number 24 is situated. The image is grainy, as we seem to almost move into the window – and as the image holds, we stare at the window of room 24… the image fades away and we are left with nothing but blackness.
chris ohlson [1999]