Commissioned Works

A Tight Thirteen Minutes- A Commissioned Works consists of thirteen one-minute sequences and then fifteen four-minute sequences. One of the one-minute sequences was a film of the director talking to the audience for the whole minute, trying to get in as many words as he possibly can. I found that interesting because it made the minute seem like the shortest minute, even though the most seemed to happen in that one compared to all the other one minute videos. One of the four-minute sequences that I enjoyed was the dog and ball one where the maker of the film tries to get his dog to drop the ball in the bucket. It is really funny because the dog doesn’t know the goal, yet, in the end, the dog is able to accomplish it. These four minutes seemed so much shorter than the four minutes of the screen saying “Stand By” and the sequence with the guy tuning the two glasses by pouring water constantly from one to the other. I feel like the main point of this film, where each director gets four minutes to do anything on screen, is to show the difference in time from one sequence to the next. There is a clear difference in the sense of time in each sequence because when something is interesting, it seems to be shorter than if it is really boring.

-Danny Ponticello