Synchronicity is an experimental film I did in 2002 born from a daring premise: to capture the raw essence of the moment without the constraints of a script or predetermined plot. Guided only by a loose treatment, the film allows fleeting [abstract] thoughts and serendipitous circumstances to shape its narrative and setting. This unorthodox approach weaves a tapestry of seemingly disparate scenes and events, connected by subtle threads of meaning and chance.
This was my first film, equipped with a XL1 Canon DV Video Camera, loaned to me at the time from an inspiring film major, friend named John. The filming took about a week. At the time I was working on my second phase of Grand Unified Field Theory in the form of what I titled “Conditional Feedback Information Theory” which was my first transitioning from the empirical to the ethereal.
I never retained a copy of the CFIT paper I wrote as it was done in QuarkXpress v4.1 and the file got corrupted. All I recall about it is the foundation was on logic gates with conditional feedback developments in automata with the modern context to the idea of the Greek term: monad.
I have come to appreciate this film more now than before, from my discovery of Benford’s law in 1999, to the concepts in chaos theory around the nature of stochastic processes.
I do believe that even if my understandings are not understood by others today, they will one day even if it takes someone else to repeat the steps I found myself walking. The information to know is always here, in the moment now. For the ‘now’ is all that exists and is access to all.
