Twenty Five

Year Twenty Five from Benjamin V on Vimeo.

This video is the result of a year-long period of rather obsessive documentation. It is a sort of montage of my year - using one second of footage from every day - starting with my 25th birthday.

I hoped that by committing to such a project I might be more likely to make the most of each day, in spite of a lot of directionlessness and a less than ideal overall situation. And much of the time I felt that the filmmaking process did indeed inspirit more active participation in the unfolding of my life, allowing me to be genuinely more engaged with and appreciaitive of where I was and what I was doing. At other times though it felt like something of a barrier between myself and my experience - introducing an element of affectation and artificiality to the unfolding of events.

All in all I think documentation of this kind is a fun and worthwhile part of living, just as long as we're careful not to let it become the point of living itself!

Sincere thank yous are extended to everyone who I knew and shared some of my twenty fifth year with, for making the year what it was and for helping to put this together. Thanks to everyone who contributed a bit of videography, and especially to those who put up so well with having my camera endlessly in their face for a whole year!