chris justus: "a thousand words"

i was pretty impressed with this work. especially knowing that he poured this out in about three weeks. the amount of cutting in photoshop alone was tons of work. and of course the subject matter is close to my heart so i had to applaud his willingness to put himself out there in a noncoded i'm going to show you pictures of my family and myself, plus tell you this intense thing way. go chris!

so i felt like the video got stronger as it went. i'm not totally sure that i needed to know the impotus for the project. and also "transgendered man named rita"? chances are if she's going by rita, she wanted to be labled as a transgendered woman. no small thing in transland.

i liked seeing his history build. i felt the images were more cohesive as they built up and worked better in sequences where there was some sort of background rather than there just being cut outs leaping from the black space.

the leaf sequences were just beautiful! the segments with his parents at the table and his sister cutting his hair were funny and also poinant in a way that i really appreciated. and the humor was about the type of image and their placement which was really nice.

i'm still thinking about the narration. i'm not sure how i feel about its delivery. i wonder if maybe it would have worked equally well or better if some of it was intermingled as text. or puntuated at points as both spoken and text. i kept flip flopping about wanting him to say more and wanting him to say a lot less.