Jonn Herschend

Jonn Herschend

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Title: "The Exact Chain of Events"

Created: 2006

Running time: 3 min. 44 sec.

Media: Text based PowerPoint presentation converted to DVD (self running)

Sound: None

Ideal mode of exhibition: projected in corporate presentation style onto a wall mounted or a collapsible screen.

Synopsis: A text-based PowerPoint style presentation in which the narrator, or presenter, works to establish as clearly as possible, the chain of events that took place. However, the gray areas in between the events begin to permeate the whole until the entire piece becomes something steeped in sex, violence, love or nothing at all. Working from Sergei Eisenstein’s Montage theory of film, each panel of text suggests links but requires the viewer to make the narrative and to decide whether the narrator is to be considered a reliable one. The end result is that viewers come away from the piece with different truths as to what actually took place in the presentation.