This week's task, Unphtohraphable Phiction, was to work alone and choose one of Michael David Murphy’s “Unphotographable” posts and create a multimedia narrative.
We needed to use our own images, new or from our archive and we had to create an accompanying soundscape.
http://www.unphotographable.com/
(Thanks to Michael for kindly allowing us to use his work )
My entry was related to 'Muslim vs. Christian over chicken'. The Unphotographable post went like this " This is a picture I did not take of a Muslim man, pushed to the limit by an evangelizing Christian, who swaggered in front of the Muslim, mocking Islam and calling the man schoolyard names, nor is this a photograph of the punch the Muslim man landed on the Christian man's ear, a punch thrown from behind, thrown hard enough to make the Christian man's eyes tear-up and start pleading that he wasn't disrespecting, and as the two of them fought their own small religious war on a street corner in Atlanta, three people stood quietly watching, looking-on from the safety of their slouches, they were waiting-for-the-bus before the fight and would be waiting-for-the-bus after so why make a fuss -- and two of the watchers weren't watching the fight really, but were looking down at the ground, at the fate of a box of chicken, that was suddenly, precariously, between the Christian and the Muslim, but had actually been there all along, quietly marking the spot where two men would have their own religious war, above a box of forgotten fried chicken."
The Picture Not Taken from Suren Makkar on Vimeo.
When I read the task and then went through the various posts at Michael's project, I felt I should do an abstract narrative and focus on the narrative this time around rather than just trying to get good looking pictures. So instead of narrative being something that seeped into the task at hand, this time due to the nature of the content we were to interpret, I made narration my goal.
Besides using these elements I had some other Ideas related to using ants and dogs to do the same story, and also use ants to do another story related to a man salvaging items from a burning house. Hope you enjoy the Phiction.
