AUTONOMOUS

I liked autonomous but I hated that it had to be in a group and we were bound to a rulebook. I would've loved to use and find another archive and do what I wanted with it. I think my group wasn't really feeling the autonomous practice because there was a lot of lacking in communication and attention to the project.

That being said I like autonomous but not because of this practice, I would love to create a psychology influenced movie for me and not for a brand/company or something but really because I want to make it. I think a mix between autonomous or commercial would be the best choice for me.

The tools I used were:
A. Pressure Cooker
The pressure cooker was the best tool we had access to it would be something I'd use again. With the pressure cooker, we actually got the idea of our Terrarist movement.

B. Theory Class
The theory classes were extremely informative but for me, it didn't fit within the autonomous practice. I got a lot of new artists out of it and a lot of inspiration and knowledge as well. But not for the autonomous practice.

C. Publication Station
In the publication station, we got the idea to create a map and a poster where people would find the latest information to actually plant the seeds.

D. Filming
With filming, we could document and make a mockup as a public intervention. This helped with our whole mockup presentation.
Editing and filming the video was fun and felt very "autonomous" like.

Terrarists are taking over the new housing in Rotterdam, a group of anarchists is planting bamboo and different seeds at grounds were Rotterdam wants to build new and high buildings. Go to www.terrarist.com for more info!

This is our mockup advertisement, the website also has a mockup. As you can see on the right. It is an interactive map which has the new housing in Rotterdam, it shows a date to plant the seeds and some information.

Click here for the website.

We had theory lessons which were super informative but didn't cover any autonomous filmmakers or artists I felt inspired by. But a lot of directors are autonomous artists therefor I chose: David Fincher. He is my biggest inspiration due to his psychological films, plot twists his way of filming and just because of his movies as well. You can really see his autograph in his movies or series. I hope one day I could make a psychology influenced movie as well like no other. Which would be inspired by David Fincher's work.

I was asked to be a collaborative archivist. It felt more like a leading researcher. Because I really had to lead the group to actually do something. I felt more like a researcher because I had to research the APV for any loops in the law. I liked it tho, to lead the group and to search in the APV it did get boring fast but I found some ways around it by using searching tools in the online APV.
But I think a collaborative archivist is someone who works in a group and archives works in his and his teammate's interest.

I was placed with different students from different departments. Our team was a combination of:
Animator, Av, Graphic Designer, Fashion and a Photographer. Learning these people really came in handy as everyone could use their expertise in our project.
Not only could we use this collaboration now but also in the future.