Dialogue With Giants

Dialogue With Giants (Originally titled T R E E) is another stop motion style video piece. I played around with dropping and reordering shots a lot more in this one. It makes the stop motion a bit more apparent and gives it a more manic sense of motion. The soundtrack was recorded shortly after the video and consists of various vocalizations (ie. there are no instruments, beyond the human voice, used).

This piece will likely be a part of Sun Spots, the long format work that I am planning. I have been writing a book for a while, the majority of it will be turned into a film called Sun Spots. The film will consist of a great many linked shorts in various styles telling a loose story based off of fictional journal entries. This segment (Dialogue With Giants) is meant to be a communication between the main character and a group of trees. The segment name comes from mythology and literature, in a way. I found out that the word Ent, from Tolkien's Middle Earth stories, was based on an anglo-saxon word for giant. I liked the idea of trees being giants in the classical/mythological sense.