"Body Camera," a one minute short film, investigates the way surroundings are recorded and absorbed corporeally. The breathing chest visible through a hole references a lens or camera obscura.
An understanding of the body as textually constructed is a crucial in-point to this film's assertion of the body as camera. Lines from notebook paper change every frame as does the motion of breath.
With each new page there is a new movement to be recorded.
The film enters the point of view of the body as it maneuvers a crowd, emphasizing the way bodily held information complicates our interactions with those around us.
Montage mixes inside with outside over and over. The body is simultaneously made of flesh and experience. The camera records manifestations of the outside world that exist inside itself.
The film ends with a composition that makes the central metaphor of the film explicit.
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