Here’s a recap of the theme of my project: Recently thru a reading of “The Oresteia” trilogy, I picked up on something new that made me sit and pause for a while. What if the events of the second book (The Libation Bearers) started not because Apollo told Orestes to kill Clytemnestra, but rather because Orestes has some mental instability. To give a little more background: Clytemnestra had already killed her husband Agamemnon in the first part of the play before Orestes has come home. The shock of the news must have been devastating for Orestes to have dealt with and somehow he internalizes this by imagining that Apollo has told him to kill his mother (his subconscious telling him to avenge his father). I thought that this might be an interesting way to interpret “the will of the gods.”
I’m currently mid moving objects right now. I’m working on playing on playing with the idea of working with a 2D medium and shooting POV shots of Orestes. So far I’ve played with Sticky notes as a sort of 2D Pop-up. Of course, this also means that I might have to drag in audio and change that part of my project over to this form of video, but that’s not a major problem at this time. Also, I’m working on shooting the scene in some way that I’m able to show what going on in Oreste’s mind. Honestly, I don’t want to give too much away at this time, but I think It’ll be at least a sort of interesting approach.
Words As My Weapon 