1917 - Reality Tunnels

Yesterday I saw 1917, the movie, I’ve been planning to watch it for a very as I saw very interesting reviews about it. I have to say that I was really impressed by the technicalities of it, not so much about the entire plot, although I believe it had some good moments.

I am quite attracted to the formal attributes of tunnels and notice them all the time when physically moving through reality. Some of the tunnels are quite obvious, like when you walk inside a tube station or walk through a narrow street or path. Others are more intriguing, like when you are inside a train wagon moving around the city, or you step inside an elevator.

Some are also ambiguous, like when you are walking through the forest and the path opens up and you see a lake surrounded by lots of trees, and then you continue walking for a bit, and it closes back again, and you are now navigating through a narrow path surrounded by nature. Even foggy days do it for me; I feel like I am inside a cave, and stuff rushes toward me through the soft walls.

In this post, I would like to illustrate some of the environments visited through the story and how I experienced them. I captured them from a movie trailer, so I am not sure if they portray the right sequence of events. In all of these moments.

I felt like I was navigating the story through a tunnel, going from one contained place to another, advancing the story through the narrowness of these situations.

I believe that depicting life as a narrative evolving through tunnels opens up new creative opportunities, perhaps by becoming a hybrid medium, the Meta-image can point the way toward uncharted territories for storytelling.