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I shot this outside Jose’s old apartment in the Aves. I rented out the GoPro to take a little extra water footage & to take this shot specifically for this transition. I put on the white dress shirt my mom bought Jose for Easter* & a white plastic container that was full of fog machine juice (that looks sort of but not really at all like the BLEACH container it’s supposed to be mimicking). I still like the effect, and the black & white matches with the black & white GoPro at the beginning of the vision coming out of the water & through the drain.
*Just now, I couldn’t remember what holiday my mother had bought him the shirt for (stuffing my face with halloween candy). I call over to jose, at the computer, gaming. He takes off his headphones. I ask him what holiday she bought him the shirt for. And he thinks. “One where everyone got presents…” He thinks… “The fourth of july?” then I think of it.
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This Exorcist clip comes straight from the original edit of “the stomach supercut,” here used at a moment of exorcism… metamorphosis, atonement, evolution, expectoration… #PAIN
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This little bit was added in later, much later than the original stomach edit & later even than stitching this sequence into the larger film. Originally, there had been a shot from Scarface with Al Pacino in the tub, with images from Meshes in the Afternoon over the top… a key on a table, then a knife. But, I never really liked the way it played. It stopped the movement & in the end, it didn’t really mean anything to me. Other than the fact he was in a bath tub. I’d never even seen Scarface. I was supposed to be pulling from my sources. I was branching out too far. And one day, it was just clear to me what should go there. I’d been watching a lot of True Blood at the time, showing it to Jose for the first time, revisiting an old friend for my own sake. Every time I saw the credit sequence, I’d say to myself, I’m going to add that baptism shot into my stomach video. But then I’d forget & never remember when I was at my computer. Until finally, it occurred to me to explicitly reference The Matrix red / blue scene.* The two fit together like butter.
*a pinnacle movie for atlantic made it one for me, too
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It’s Squeezit. Forbidden Zone, again. Another HOLY image I made in the menagerie created for these sequences.
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Back to our stock footage water girl. Some more Alice. This time I let the girl’s face show more, her eye dip into frame. Seeing further behind the curtain again… showing it’s not me. It pleased me I was able to work the “EAT ME” CAKES into the picture. I had a whole bit planned out for The Salt Flats with my own set of “EAT ME” cupcakes, but we ended up having to cut it. We took turns holding them on our laps the whole ride to Wendover. They fell at some point for some reason & half of them were compromised. I got rather upset — the anxiety inside me reaching mass capacity. The next day on set, Linds spent considerable time re-crafting the words “EAT ME” in frosting across the top of the compromised cupcakes. I will never forget the look on Linds’ face when I came over & had to break the news to her that we were cutting the cupcakes. Dead inside, she reached for a cupcake & ate one in an entire bite. #SAVAGE
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This is from the video for some free heartbeat sound effect I use here. I liked the visual so much I decided to use it in the film.
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There’s Dorothy again. Falling back to Earth, again.
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And some overlaid water stock footage, about to surface.
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There’s something I really like about how the sound sequences here. The TV out to the smoke blow to the girl gasping… I don’t know. Something about it just indescribably works about it.
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I can’t really explain why the gasping is there. I found it as a residually potentially useful piece of some other sound effect I was looking up. I think I did, at least. I don’t think I looked for it specifically. Maybe an off-shoot of the smoking inhalation. Functions as gasping for air, maybe? After coming out of water.
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This is some smoke transition effect I found on the internet. I liked how Jose vaped over his “1_BleAch” sign. So, I tried to replicate the effect in the other two with make-shift methods.