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New Orleans Film Society

Experimental Shorts

Decision Making (A Triptych)

USA 8 min.

Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
E. Aaron Ross

Synopsis

Decision Making (A Triptych)’ is part performance, part documentary, and part experimental narrative. Each section centers around the activity of jumping, and proposes a connection between the arc of a jump and the arc of a decision.

This piece deals with want versus ability, reality versus fantasy, time and process–with a minimal use of language (only appearing on the title screens that begin each section). The actions of each section are stretched to their limits as a means to dissect the psychology and emotions that accompany the daily struggle through the banal details of our lives.