Bananas are Berries
For this project, I was interested in examining how an ordinary, repetitive action can shift in perception and meaning depending on how it is presented. By focusing on the simple, everyday act of eating a banana, I wanted to explore how familiarity can become strange when it is isolated, repeated, or altered.
The unedited video emphasizes duration and authenticity, allowing the action to unfold naturally without interference. This version highlights the physicality and mundanity of the task, drawing attention to subtle gestures and reactions that might normally go unnoticed.
The edited video builds on this by changing the pacing and structure of the footage. Through editing, the action becomes less about simply showing what happened and more about creating rhythm and visual connections. Repeating certain movements and using transitions between different ways of eating the banana helps create unexpected moments and keeps the viewer unsure of what will happen next. This allowed me to explore how editing can change how viewers understand time and movement while still keeping the performance feeling real and human.
The animation pushes the idea further by turning physical movements into a more stylized and simplified version. By exaggerating and repeating gestures, the animation focuses more on patterns and motion.
Across the creation of these three videos, I was interested in how a single everyday action can be documented, manipulated, and reimagined, revealing how context and presentation influence meaning and viewer interpretation.
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