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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As an artist and Film Studies student, I saw the capstone option as an opportunity to consolidate academia with the art of filmmaking into one project. This became Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness, an experimental short film written, directed, and edited by me. It is a film influenced by early avant-garde cinema, German expressionism, and film noir. Composed of pieces of unrelated footage and featuring an ambiguous, non-linear, and mostly silent narrative, the editing of the film prompted me to ask myself questions about its genre. Its hybridity made it possible to position the film within different categories, but there …