The Geometry of Motion

The title of the film comes from the architect and scholar Vitruvius , who discovered the Golden Section Proportions used extensively in art education. The Golden Section proportions are based on a human preference for shapes and visual relationships that follow a pattern of 1:1.618. An example would be a preference for picture whose dimensions are 5 inches by 8 inches as compared to a picture whose dimensions are perfectly square (5 by 5 or 8 by 8).

The golden section proportions can be found throughout nature and the environment created by human beings. These proportions can be found in mathematics. The Fibonacci Sequence (0+1=1,1+1= 2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5, 5+3=8, 8+5=13,13+8=21 etc…) follows a pattern very close to that of the golden section. Some of the earliest evidence of the use of these visual relationships can be found to date back to the architecture of Stonehenge.

I started with this idea as a beginning point for organizing the visual look of a scene within the film and then improvised the following visual images and movement as far as I could before they started to become overly repetitive.