6X1 students had 49-hours to create a video using a "mystery prop," which had to appear somewhere in their 1 to 3-minute film. The mystery prop was revealed to the students only 2-days before their films were screened. To make things even more challenging, students could not use "any device who's primary service [was] for producing motion pictures" (i.e. video cameras and film cameras). That's right, students had to rely on such possibilities as digital still cameras (still and movie mode acceptable), cell phones, scanners, etc. but could not initially capture their images on strips of celluloid or video tape.
Films were produced by each of the students and screened on a vinyl shower curtain liner tied to two trees in the backyard of the Silva compound.
Earlier in the semester, the 6X1 class discussed the idea of "the Rough Theater," so the shower-curtain-liner-as-movie-screen was merely a manifestation of this.
The screening was part of a larger end-of-semester extravaganza which included installation projects from the experimental class and short documentaries from the doc class.
