the whole city.
writer, director, editor.
The film is about leaving and returning, prospect and refuge. The whole city is a paradoxical homonym, there is no complete city as they are ever evolving, but one person’s dwelling reflects the entire city. The film asks, what does it mean to leave our humanity in one domain in order to participate in another?
The film shifts in time and scale, where color is used it is usually distorted. People are not fully seen, although their intense emotions are felt. This is meant to dissect what the city may do to both arouse and blunt our physical senses, as well as our senses of self. Symbolic objects like the onion represent the pungency of urban competition which may irritate our automatic nervous systems while no other emotion resides. The daily journey of leaving and returning allows us to join the public realm but it asks us to forfeit at worst, compartmentalize at best, our most tender qualities.
The whole city is the human city, an important contemplation as we enter (or may have already entered) the fifth industrial revolution in which human-machine centered collaboration and harmony will be paramount to our species’ survival.
the critical role of green infrastructure in Denver.
editor and narrator.
Created by Dig Studio for the City and County of Denver Department of Transportation Infrastructure (DOTI) Division of Green Infrastructure. The video can also be viewed on DenverDOTI's YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOaMFcLKqM.