Brandon John Barnard

  Today I am going to be going over the roundabout way in which ‘ Disseminate ’ came to be. While reading around the topic of ‘ Nouveau Réalisme ’, I came across something which I used to always enjoy doing as a kid and which I had forgotten about. Exquisite Corpses ! This is the game you play with your friends where you fold a piece of paper into different sections, and each person takes turns drawing a part of the overall picture, but no one can see the previous work until everyone is finished. To be honest, I had no idea that this was called an ‘exquisite corpse’, and neither does anyone else I talk to about it. Everyone  knows  the game in some capacity, but just know it as ‘that paper game’. An exquisite corpse that was made on the 24th of August 2024, when I was in the early phases of my thoughts. It was done by me (hat), my wife Isobel (the face), and my friends Louis (shoulders) and Art (hands). In terms of my PhD (Chance in Filmmaking), this is a great look into ...

  I have started committing fully to the process of, while I am reading a book or into a topic, creating a web of each element that interests me via Clip Studio. Web exploring themes of ‘chance in filmmaking’ for my PhD proposal This formed, like many academic practices, as a solution to a problem. I wanted to see which ideas/people/events were linked to each other, and by making the connection, what new ideas emerged. Sort of like doing chemistry in the dark, I would grab two elements on different sides of the spider diagram, and ask the question ‘how are these connected?’. Sometimes, there is none, or at least none that do not make me come across as someone rambling to themselves on the bus. Though, when there are, its impossible to un-see the connections. Originally, this process was done with mostly my (digital) notes, with some multimodal elements such as screenshots. Looking at how chance exists or had been used in some of my previous works. What stopped me from embracing thi...