Film Ideas and Notes:

• Pandora goes through the processes of pollution, decay and climate change.

• Mirroring how climate change disproportionately affects women.

• The violence of climate change enacted through the body - embodying climate change through the body in order to fully understand it.

• Body horror, comparisons with vanitas paintings, rotten baroque, decaying beauty.

• All the drama and contrast of baroque paintings.

• Metamorphosis - growing through the decay.

• Need to think about how I want the themes of Pandora's Box story to play out.

Character drives story, the character doesn't have to be a person nessecarily, but the story drives the concept.

Outer journeys - inner conflict resolution.

Plot structure:

• as a hero's journey quest?

• Does this work? Maybe I can subvert it.

• Foreshadwoing as a key stone - linking the film through foreshadowing and hindsight.

• Episodic in form, find a way that this doesn't fall apart, need to decide on the sections and weave them together.

To do:

• Need to break down all the elements and figure out the plot.

• Describe in the present what is happening with key overarching elements.

Micro shots - pollution, details of the character. Reflecting how the micro of climate destruction is massively effecting humans and well as the macro. Eg. micro plastics, weather effects to farming etc.

Need to look at Jonathan Glazer's work - 'Under The Skin'

Tom York as well.

Working thematically - can make this work with episodic nature?

Narrative helps reinforce the themes and symbolism.

Controlling idea: Female Body processing the destruction of the planet.

Key things that can help communicate ideas:

• costume

• breath

• mundane story around Pandora but focusing on the horror, making it too complicated will detract from overall themes. Look at Redoubt for ideas about this, taking a myth about Diana as the root and not complicating it, and then making something experimental out of it.

• It opens up world of destruction leaving hope.

• Maybe can intertwine Cassandra story too - apocryphal

Micro is where I can thematically explore ideas in an abstract. Undercut the myth.

Reading:

Barabara Creed - 'Monstrous Feminine'

Carol Clover 'Men, Women and Chainsaws'

Theleweit 'Male Fantasies' - the Introduction by Barbara Creed.