Andrew’s instinctive experimental project is a compression of visual ideas and systems. It's an attempt to make order and cohesion out of chaos and, in some small way, to make sense out of anxiety. It’s a collection of quiet, eclectic, and often surreal vignettes – described by Andrew as “sketchbook ambience.” Stash coverage here.
"The film represents the types of thoughts, plans, anxieties, and observations that float around one's head in any given moment. Rather than laying them all out in a chaotic mess, I wanted to lay them out into a sequence that felt serene."
-Andrew Myers
There's something calming about each one of the vignettes. The project is less of a literal narrative and more of an impression, a feeling, a provocation of thought. The compositions are appealing because of their deft precision. Andrew creates scenes with busy, complex images and then pares them down into simple concepts. This subtle harnessing of the chaotic allows the ideas to come through.
There's a recurring theme of the "singular collective" that comes through. Individuals ride an escalator together, but stand separately. Individuals wave from the same building, but from different windows. Images, all uniquely designed on one side, rotate on swivels to reveal one larger image as a whole. This idea of singular coexistence is just one of the many concepts effortlessly touched upon in "17 Small Ideas."
Viewing the film is like visiting an art museum, where viewer's interpretation is almost as important as artist's intention. The synchronous overlap between is where you find the meaning. And if you don't find the meaning, well, at least you'll be totally entertained by the weird, wonderful visuals.
