You can pretty much get away with anything under the heading of science fiction. It’s possibly the ultimate playground for the imagination with as much, or as little, basis in reality as the film-maker chooses. It makes for some ground-breaking films.
My inspiration is this limitlessness of the science fiction genre and more specifically, The Matrix (1999).
I have an embarrassing inability to retain films in my memory once I’ve seen them. This one though, has somehow stayed with me despite my indifference for Keanu Reeves.
Imagine being able to access everything there is to know about any subject, by plugging into a computer and downloading information directly into your head. There’s something very appealing about that. The efficiency? Knowledge is power perhaps?
The strong visual effects of the film are hard to ignore. From the raining, green numeric code of the Matrix to ‘lots of guns’ appearing like high-speed trains into white space; this visual repetition will no doubt make its way into my work.
So I’m going to make a kind of wearable ammunition…lots of it…to depict limitless power.
Doris Jurzak
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