@matt_gh2

Nobody makes great films 'themselves', it's a collaborative effort. I agree that one usually has to be focused and go-all out to make a great film, even if there is one person who usually has to be the leader and in charge to make the vision consistent. But I don't agree with your point that games like this lead nowhere. One can be gung-ho and driven and lead themselves into a rut that someone else dug -- happens all the time, if you don't get inspiration. Inspiration comes from this sort of thing, from the work of others, but also from 'play'.

If you say it's all for "fun only"...merely a "game"...then I say "that's cool too". But for those who have ambition to produce something great

I think you do not understand that is the games purpose in human life (and in animals life too) :-)

Yeahhhh!!! garbage me like it, nothing to loose, nobody wants, rejected, despised and smelly.

Now seriously, @matt_gh2 you're welcome to criticize, measure and give stars. maybe, if not afraid to get dirty :P even participate and improve it... You would never imagine how well I understand you, I mean it; that is one (probably the most powerful) reason why from day 1 I stated it is just a game. Go on tell your kids the mess they're doing is has no higher purpose ja ja ja

@Vitaliy something like that went through my mind, but being me who has to select or winnow uff...
it is not laziness, well a bit maybe, is more I would like to put down (together) a set of rules and then let things go, more or less, on their own. It is also a way of keeping the game (vs art/transcendental) spirit.

That's another interesting project though

2 more things, first the BS
Chinese proverb everybody knows the usefulness of useful, few know the usefulness of the useless

Secondly, I like our first corpse. For going somewhere unknowable we have to trust, I don't mean you trust me (that would be an error) I mean trust life/the collective, put nice energy into it, if don't like where you're going make happen that direction is changed. I am going to say this only once (uuhhh... ja ja ja) I am here (specific thread) to have fun.
I have no desire or longing for power or control, quite the opposite, for learning and freedom

gashô

I'm not sure that I believed that this was a serious project, and therefore wouldn't judge it as such. Is it a great masterpiece? No, but it was fun and it's interesting to see what people wanted to add to the project. I would definitely do it again, especially now that I know more about it.

I hate to say it...but that's pure garbage. I say this even though I like the idea of surrealsim. But this corpse format has the same problem that "improv acting" has - sometimes it's good and sometimes its bad...but it's never going to be as good as a passionate and intelligent person or group of persons who write a script and rewrite and rewrite until you have real gold. Then the same process in shooting and editing.

Surrealism and its concepts of free association and delerio/critical analysis are great tools...but this format is doomed to produce emotionally weak movies with little value. To those who say they "got it" or feel the flow, then I say truly "good for you", but you're risking falling into your own private language where your viewer can not understand what you say, think, or feel.

My review of the corpse - 1 out of 5 stars. The 1 star is given because the participants proceeded with a positive attitude towards life and art...that does come thru...but unfortunately this is...in the final analysis...garbage typical of the BS 48 hour film projects produce. My only suggestion is to channel those surrealistic impulses in a more powerful and compelling way. The talent is there...the passion is there...now do something better.

Sorry guys, but this is truly garbage.

@spacewig 10 sec in motion sounds good! @MirrorMan will also be happy.
we can ad that to @Alienhead 's "an object/subject" present in all shots

what kind of other formal limitations would you think suits this new corpse?
what about soundtrack? talking about soundtrack I've to go finish my latest
agglomerate, bis gleich!

@buildbyflying don't hate man :P
you can already start your participation by helping in the building of the outline for next corpse :D

@spacewig just remind me not to let you cook on my nephew's birthday party, ja ja ja

guys let's do this!!! we need to spit things out... a minimum of planing for next episode... I can smell death's shampoo approaching

Hate that I'm so late to the game, but I'd like to participate on the next corpse. Count me in for a shot..

I see @MirrorMan kick off shot a bit like a dream beginning.

I thought that your shot(the 2nd) was also very dreamlike. I had the idea of people viewing/listening to recordings of dreams. With the 4th shot it turns into a sort of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/Minority Report crime sci-fi.

While I like idea, such thing is not for me. I much more prefer interesting people and shoing real work or nature.

It's better than arguing about hack bitrates.

I like it, honestly.
Surrealists had tight... relations with dreams. I see @MirrorMan kick off shot a bit like a dream beginning. I could be wrong but I have this feeling that the longer the sequence the easier to loose narrativeness, to abandon explanation and embrace the experience (video is such a tyrant medium) as a whole. @Alienhead If you just see 1 minute of Brackhage it's a joke

My bigger surprise is sound, so distinct and at the same time such a powerful unifying thing

There's also a precious experience from where to go on building a more consistent way of sharing/collaborating, discussing and implementing, as it's already happening :D

I'm happy

So... we have Ted's idea of same object through the shots and MirrorMan 5 to 10 secs proposal, ah and @jazzroy deadly fart :P - what limitations, if any? What do others think/feel?

For future project we could consider having... either a theme, a sound, a text line, etc. then each person would go on making his/her shot(s) and finally assembling all together. This would be a very fast project if many participants; we would need to find an efficient way of sharing and some rules for assembling... but that's for another corpse XD

Finally, right now I'm exporting a HQ x264 1080p24 video, I'll PM you with downloadable link when it's done and I didn't choose vimeo's video cover, was automatic, just in case of doubts and for clarification.
It's good to be part of this

Brilliant effort really! It works as a short absurdist piece... I second the idea to do it again. Maybe the length of the film should be in proportion to the length of each shot. Assuming there would be 15 or so contributors with an average 5 second shots we end up with a 1 minute film, with 10 second shots we would end up with a 2 minute film etc... just my thoughts but I'm big timing and structuralist works.

My head hurts trying to figure out the meaning of it all.

It seems to be a journey with some hallucinations in the middle.

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here it is guys!!!! still converting (give it 45 min or so) but I am going to pass out
read&join U in some hours, check vimeo text to know if it's ok or missed something

gashô

PS
pasted here vimeo text

This exquisite corpse is the result of a Personal View members' collaborative video project
spanning from the 29th of May to July the 7th, 2013.
There is no edit whatsoever in images or sound, they just have been juxtaposed in chronological order.
For more info personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6989/exquisite-corpse-a-collaborative-video-proposal/p1

BIG thanks to Vitaliy Kiselev, our host :D

In order of participation:

. MirrorMan
. maxr - also PR/MC or dealer for this specific corpse
. jpbturbo
. jazzroy
. inqb8tr
. Django
. michal
. eatstoomuchjam
. svart
. spacewig
. Alienhead
. kevin_kirchman
. haavard
. weimar

all pixels in this video are fictitious, any resemblance with reality is merely coincidence or you hallucinating