An Index Of Secrets - Scene 20 - “Finale” - Nat Bradley - Video Art
The film "An Index Of Secrets" will be released as a series of scenes weekly on Instagram and YouTube.
Upon completion, the scenes will be compiled into a finished film.
Scene 20
“Finale”
Lucian,
Hello Cleara.
You are looking more like yourself today.
There seems to have been more adjustments made.
*** Cleara is shown next to a tape recorder.
It plays this recording…
It starts with an ocean at night.
A black ocean.
A glowing moon.
It feels supernatural.
It feels like a non reality or a metaphor.
An incantation.
A black space.
A round spot light, shining down from above.
Bacteria and organisms squirm.
Birth.
A human animal of pure panic and fear.
A female figure.
Sculpted, formed, created.
Vast dark space.
Endless.
Cleara
This is the viewer in first person.
We never see him.
Can you explain this?
Can you explain this, Lucian?
You, you are a microphone voice transmitting.
We see a ship floating through space and hear the voice.
It describes the current moment.
The operation.
It’s like a diary.
***ALL WHITE BACKGROUND
BUT LUCIAN, we never see you.
We never see you, Lucian.
We feel your presence and hear your voice but yet we never see your face.
Can you explain this?
It appears you are a spectator, an active observer.
But who are you really and what part are you actually playing?
We never see your face and yet you are active in writing this story.
You have been guiding it along the whole time?
Without your own body or eyes?
A controlled viewer.
The Observer.
Are you the author Lucian?