After finishing filming I spent some time collating and digesting the footage that we had captured. I played around with it in some temporary projects, layered it, graded it, messed with it, destroyed it. I deliberately didn’t keep any of that playing, I just wanted to spend some unconstructed time with the footage.

Then I took some time off from it, I read some books, journals and went on holiday.

I reconnected with the footage and did some simple colour coding of the files to give me a starting point for visually getting an idea of how to sequence the clips (magenta and purple clips were rejects). Green clips tended to have more movement, blue clips were stiller, tan clips were cloudy. I used this as a quick way to give a rhythm to the film.

I didn’t think that file names would be that useful for organising here as they would would be largely similar, bubbles in liquid 1-13.

I started working with some sound ideas that are developing from earlier projects. I haven’t totally rejected the voice over concept but I wanted to put something together that didn’t use it at all.

The sounds are layers of distorted rain and sea sounds that I have recorded over the past few weeks. It is fairly simple at the moment and doesn’t have enough layers or texture but starts to give an idea of a possible direction.

We were in Paris in the middle of the heat wave, as a new Prime-minister came to power in London, contrasted with democracy protests in Hong Kong, and rallies by the sitting US President were eerily similar to less democratic periods in Europe. I am making a film that dreams about the end of time, how much should it respond to now.