What follows is a sample of sketch-scenario-outline of a set of narrative fragments (scenes) of fleeting human gestures and urban settings, around inner city of Sydney, proposed for production development as a film documentary fiction, of urban street life, gazed by an itinerant visitor.
The scenario is subdivided into 10 segments (fugues) entitled as follows and out of which this submission presents only a selected list of scenes from segments 1 to 2. Description of each of the scenes has been kept to mere indications of place and action. Further writing, reflections and production contingencies, are available in extended annotations of the project proposal.
List of Segments
1. City
1a Notes
2. Kirkbride
3. Callan Park
4. Corridor
5. Film Dust Pain
6. Luminaries
7. When the Sun Goes Down
8. Museum
9. Olive Trees Diaspora
10 Pedestrians Archive
Section 1 Excerpts Page 1 City
0110
Train Two women sitting side by side, talking to each other in Chinese. The constant movement of their heads back and side. The delight of the sound of their speech and the oscillation of their faces moving to and fro… recalling the fort da game now you see and now you don’t.
0106
Central Station Tunnel.
A puppeteer busker. Chinese music. Echoes and reverberations. Pedestrians moving past.
Darlington
0107
Steps. Law Library. Some objects roll down the large white masonry steps of the building.
0108
Poster. Volunteers Wanted. Brain and Mind Research.
0109
Two men trying to manoeuvre their way out of a door of a men’s toilet.
0113
Windows of Chemistry lab. Several students inside all wearing white and all apparently performing the same actions.
0104
A girl lying prone on a bench, reading a book. The sudden movement of her body raising and twisting as her hand slips into her dress to fix her bra.
0112
Parramatta Road.
Inside the bus. An old shop with an old sign NUTRI PERMA. Passing and now past. The sign moves (from my eyes) and yet it’s fixed to the wall.
Daily Walk
Section 2 Page 1
Kirkbride
“I thought I’d find you here”
0101
Archival photos of Kirkbride on the wall of foyer.
0101A
Café. Foreign Voices.
0101B
Corridor. Painting Studio. Student painting. Loud music out of tune.
0103
A Poster. Hymm to Beauty. Utamaro prints. Beauty and terror.
0111
Listening to the sounds of ‘music’ of constant hammering from a workshop.
0216
Room. Early morning sun light. Day’s greetings.
0227
A yellow post-it sticker. With words. Body Talks.
0228
Pink concrete ramp, sunlight moving. Earth moving. Light and stone animated.
0236
A figure leaning on the wall at a distance in the shadow, obscured perceptions.
0304
A man running up and down as if in a video loop.
0308
The Café/Gallery, a patch of the floor re-varnished, cordon off with ‘bright’ red and white strip. Danger Keep Out.
0313
Outside. Chalk drawings of a series of ‘circles’ on a concrete path. A thin round plywood on a pole casting a shadow onto one of the circle drawings… moving with the moving sunlight (earth revolutions) in and out of the circle drawing, sync and async.