Project idea - deconstructed film
My friend Rui told me about an interesting work: an edit of the election debates between John Kerry and George W. Bush, where all the talking was removed, and only the silences left. While I have not seen this yet, it does sound fascinating.
I am considering taking a well-known movie (for some reason "Star Wars" comes to mind) and cutting it up into scenes featuring specific characters, then showing all the character specific streams simultaneously in a multi-window presentation.
Characters with less screen time would have their own window go blank early, while the characters with most screen time would have their window persist until the end.
I was also thinking of stretching/speeding up the various videos so that scenes with multiple characters sync up, or alternatively, let the viewer choose the point of synchronization.
In the short term, an easier thing to do would be to take a shorter scene, say a dialog between two characters, and play both halves of the conversation at once, on a split screen.