'SHIFT'

‘SHIFT’ exploits the relationship of time, perspective, and place. While the normal sense of place is likened to perceived destination, in the film short the notion of place is ‘SHIFT’(ed). Taking place in the North Brea Tunnel in Solano Avenue, ‘SHIFT’ explores unimagined space, interstitial places that suture perceived destinations. An architecture of time ‘SHIFT’(ing) perspective, time sequence, and prescribed ideas of utility, the tunnel promotes voyeuristic inhabitation. Once merely an agent of flow, the vehicle of transport becomes the destination allowing the voyeur to dwell within the non-place. The camera too acts as a vehicle of transposition. Both camera and stage allow the voyeur to experience place through a vortex of ‘SHIFT’(ed) time in accelerated intensity.