A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 11, 2025
Original Title:
0:05 x 365
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
With no use of colour grading, and making use of an Android phone camera, self-made filmmaker and film student Ellis James Plant documents exactly 5 seconds of every single day of his life from his 18th birthday (March 10, 2024) to his 19th birthday (March 10, 2025). The idea came from Yang's ability to only film 5 seconds of each day, resulting in a collection of 5 second memories that capture the most stunning quotidian moments he experienced, in Kogonada's film "After Yang" (2021). The film's lack of refinement is also a stab at recent films' glossy "too clean" colour correction, acting as a counteraction to those with an unpolished quotidian look. This unpolished, raw appearance extends further outwards, reflecting the director's disdain for artificiality (both social and physical), and how artificial behaviours pervade our everyday lives in one way or another. The director wants a world where that simply doesn't exist.
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