Year: 2021 | Keywords: storyboard, isolation, multimedia journal, ordinary narratives, self-discovery, memory of place, covid-19
A Life in A Day
"A Life in A Day" envisions a short animated film encapsulating my year-long journey of isolation - due to Covid-19 - within a studio flat in West London, spanning from March 2020 to March 2021. While the narrative seemingly centers on routine domestic activities over the course of a day, its essence lies in the emotional discourse suggested by the subjective manipulation of space and time, coupled with a dramatic interplay of light and color.
The storyboard emerged from a year's worth of multimedia journaling, documenting my solitary experience both within and beyond the domestic confines. This extensive journal comprises sketches, paintings, written reflections, maquettes, audio and video recordings, and, notably, an extensive photographic archive meticulously mapping and categorising a visual language of shapes, colours, and textures.
“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have suffered from solitude, enjoyed, desired and compromised solitude, remain indelible with us, and precisely because the human being wants them to remain so. He knows instictively that this space identified with his solitude is creative.”
