permutations

For a year I made a small film everyday, called, Permutations. These were every day recording of life. Some stills below.

Cinema is identical to life, because each one of us has a virtual and invisible camera which follows us from when we’re born to when we die. In reality cinema is an infinite film sequence-shot. Each individual film interrupts and rearranges this infinite sequence-shot and thus creates meaning, which is what happens to us when we die. It is only at our moment of death that our life, to that point undecipherable, ambiguous, suspended, acquires a meaning. Montage thus plays the same role in cinema as death does in life.

Pasolini, “Ora tutto è chiaro, voluto, non imposto dal destino”, Cineforum 68 October 1967, p. 609, but see also Wagstaff’s discussion of Pasolini’s film theory, art. cit

A series of films, one produced each day of the year, 2005 and then on a more occasional basis.

Here is an essay on the work, 'The Death of the Reel: Harnessing the Image in Marc Lafia’s Permutations'