Sean Meng-Looking Outwards-06

Transmedia filmmaking artist Vladimir Kanic used chaos theory* as a filmmaking tool and explored how a film can be made by using randomness as its principal structural language. In order to perform the process, the artist and his team have devised a concept of the Magic box, designed to serve as a model system of randomness. Twelve boxes were given to randomly chosen art directors, and each one had to put a random number of objects inside, seal the box and not disclose the contents to anyone. A group of random people set the boxes into a completely unorganized stash, and the artist had to choose one and pick it up on a random day. Since the artist didn’t know what kind of a film is going to be created, its structural language and technique were decided by observing and measuring randomness that emanated from the objects concealed in the box. The project and methodology explores how randomness can be define in multiple dimensions and how to engage people to interact with randomness and how the final work that had been generated can be unpredictable at the beginning.