yawn

country - iceland
partner - einkofi productions
project manager - agusta thorarinsdottir

Tongue out, eyes wide open, I loosen my jaw, taste the air, look around and wait. Wait for an anomaly in the air. I wait for a glitch. A sign. A sign that some of my particles, some of what makes me, me, is not actually here with me, today.

We open on a tongue, moving from side to side, very slowly. It goes up, down, and searches for information in the air. We see a special children with special needs poster. We need to understand that this is a waiting room for an autistic diagnosis? How does the room taste like? How does it feel to be in this room? Explore places beyond what your eyes can see. This leads to a big big yawn, multiple yawns while waiting. We can go a see the bathroom and have water running, playing with the water and drops. Filming things through water drops. Our character strokes their way into the waiting room. And we see other hands stroking other landscapes on their way somewhere. Can the theme of empathy be introduced through a brochure? Or something than someone says in the waiting room? Or something the character hears on their way to the waiting room?

Hands stroking surfaces, making their way somewhere (the cinema?). The hands are all different and they stroke different surfaces on their way somewhere but towards the end, they all stroke their way into the cinema room. Meeting the cinema room with the hands? Stroking, tasting. Tongues licking surfaces, on their way somewhere.

We see the face of one character, but hands, tongues of many? If so, then they have a Pings so we can explore flashbacks to childhood with a linking element?

How do we go from the personal and intimate to the collective? Collective cinema experience. All of our characters are already there, watching my stimming hands. What stims would they project? Film the stims of the cinema audience. Intimate shots. Taken just by me with the person. Edit a sequence of stims for Petar to write music to. They watch that.

Slow mo exploration: falling, running backwards very very fast, running towards camera very very fast. Hands typing sunshine. Character banging head against wall. Spinning and happy. 

Waiting room exploration, tongue, sounds

If flashes from the room, what stands out? Orange blur?

Hands stroking their way out, empathy is a sensory experience. It’s a physical, now experience.

 Towards the end of the stroke sequence, glimpses of other people’s faces?

Cinema yawn

Stims on screen