Lessons on Leaving Your Body (Drones)

Brief description

The film documents Jake Wells' piloting of a remote controlled, camera-enabled drone. Wells describes his relationship with the drone in religious terms, seeing himself as a "flesh pilot" who happens to be temporarily in control of his human body, and is able to experience a different body through piloting the drone. The cinematic representation includes drone footage, which is presented as very chaotic, jerky, and with frequent failure when the drone crashes. The parts of the art documentary filmed by a human operator contrast this strongly, with stable, well-composed images and a sense of calm in the visual composition and narration.

Pull Quotes

"Your flesh is not who you are. You are flying that flesh (..) My body is just completely a rock, it’s not even moving, it’s just sitting there, you know."

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
Lessons on Leaving Your Body Art Nadav Assor
Who does what?
Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.
Notes
I would have liked to be able to tag Jake Wells' sentiment as "spiritual" or "stimulating" or "evocative" or "meaningful". Hm.
Very difficult to tag "Relationships humans/machine vision".
There was no verbs here, maybe something added so early that we did not have the MV situation yet figured out. I tried my best. Jill check if you agree, make changes if needed and change from One person feels OK with this to Two persons agree, if you are okay with what I logged.

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