Project proposal (updated)

The aim of my project is to uncover the subconscious, what lies underneath our everyday lives. I am going to explore how humans interact with the structures of the city that they have created. I am using a surrealist technique called triptography, where you create a triple exposure on film shooting over the same film for three times. I believe that this technique will help me to achieve a surrealist effect that will resemble the subconscious – changing thoughts, memories that overlay each other just like the film that has been exposed multiple times. Another surrealist technique that I am going to use is the cut-ups, originally created by William Burroughs, is where you cut up the text into separate words and then rearrange it to create a new meaning. In this way, as Burroughs suggests, it is possible to metaphorically cut through the structure of our everyday lives. William states that we have created patterns and boundaries for ourselves, even stating that language represents a form of structure. He suggests that cut up technique is a way of breaking through and escaping the structure of language.