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Final Experiment: Pick a clip from Man With a Movie Camera and make your own interpretation of it. 

Clip used: EIGHT, 142

Modernity in the 21st century is a reckless socialization that never stops when we believe we are coming to an impact with something, like the man coming into contact with the train). Technological products all face a type of impact which they need to overcome (be it a glitch, a virus, aging parts) in order to successfully transform into something better. In Vertov’s Kinoks Manifesto, he implicitly states that “my path leads to creation of a fresh perception of the world. I decipher in a new way a world unknown to you” (Vertov 18) In regards to my film, this means that the path of the car coming toward me is not actually a fatal accident waiting to happen, but rather a chance for me to alter my fate and create a more successful outcome because my perception of the impact is not fatality but evolution. Rather than having a train approach me (trains not being a common piece of transportation anymore – there are more cars on the road, hence the modernity), a bulky dark car comes towards me and before actual impact, it changes into a silver, shiny car which then drives away, signifying the active involvement in the evolution of my own fate. Changing the way I decipher the actions coming towards me changes the way I see the outcome, and I saw it as a transformation into modernity and softening the kinks to come out with a new perception of the car. The first clip is in black/white because I see the car as a typical problem coming toward me, but the car driving away is in colour because it signifies the alteration to my perception of the impact and the successful outcome.

In taking a video of the car, I also believe that it is a further understanding of the culture and society around me. Cars are a constant addition to our everyday lives which we have now become accustomed to. The incoming car is like attempting to understand the world which is steadily coming toward us; and rather than being knocked over by the experience, I have taken it into my own hands. Using my own interpretation of the event, I have changed my fate into a silver car that then drives away. “The presentation of even the most ordinary things will take on an exceptionally fresh and interesting aspect” (19), and the presentation of the ordinary car takes on a new aspect according to how I decided to portray the situation.