Unsatisfying Compilations

A couple of days ago an animated short video called "Unsatisfying Compilations" about small unsatisfying moments in everyday life became viral. The sequences (as the title says) were not desiring, even for some viewers they seemed to be annoying. However the negative senses were not that much that could stop people from watching the whole video. The overall feeling which was provoked by following these short stories is even so intimate that all of sudden everyone recognize that they encounter with the same dissatisfactions everyday.
As I have found "infra-thin" as the most tangible term to percieve a sense of cuff, I can not think of a better setting to practice and recognize it other than time based mediums. So in this case, we have some happenings. Some of them contain a climax where an award or a satisfaction is anticipated, and the others do not necessarily have such moment. Dissatisfaction suddenly appears in ordinary situations.
In any case, there is a very short moment between past and future (which resembles the state of now) when the twist is about to happen. In immediate actions (like the nailing scene) it is a frame and in more slower ones (like the basketball scene) it is a couple of frames. Former situations are more shocking since the spectator is expecting to see not a unsatisfying moment and then suddenly face with a dissatisfaction. Therefor, in these cases there is no time for the viewer's senses to be transmitted between two different states.
On the other side, the more gentle unsatisfying moments give more time to the spectator to not being before nor after the twist. His/her state of sense shifts as the basketball ball slowly falls off the basket. That very short moment may consists of only a few frames, but it is still long enough to put the viewer in a suspension mood when a lot of other feelings like curiosity, question, hope, fear and etc. would happen at the same time.
This is a specific infra moment between two opposite states which could be regarded as the cuff moment in more slow paced sequences of this video, which are short, temporary, hence unrecognizable, but at same time so strong and intense that can impress the spectators a lot and make them distribute the video to share their feelings with others.

Here is the link to video:

https://vimeo.com/189919038

I also captured that particular moment of uncertainty where photographically speaking, the punctum forms and in that sense could also impress a sense of cuff regardless of its' before or after events.









1 comment:

  1. So well said, Farid: "In any case, there is a very short moment between past and future (which resembles the state of now) when the twist is about to happen." The twist is the affective turn where the work does its work. To think this as the cuff allows us not to moralize "what is missing," emphasizing the twist instead. Nice.

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