The Patten Projects (2009)

Twenty-three short moving image projects that span a broad range of imaginative thoughts and ideas. These projects represent a significant portion of Grant Patten's creative output during his time as a university undergrad from 2003 to 2008. 1: The Life of a Circuit Box in a Wall - envisioning the mundane imaginatively; 2: Colors & Shapes - expression through color and shape; 3: Memory Catalyst: Sound Version - the common need for a visual impetus in accurate recollections; 4: Memory Catalyst: Paint/Scratch Version two; 5: The Doze - the illusion/reality dichotomy; 6: The Cowardly Camera - the personality of the camera. 7: The Visual Literacy Challenge - aiding in the treatment of a widespread ailment, visual illiteracy; 8: Perspectives - the cinematic notion of competing perspectives on the same event; 9: Bob's Fate - the script is about fate and the attempt to overcome it; 10: lament one - the conveyance of an atmosphere; 11: lament two - version two; 12: The Living Quarters of a Young Man - the exploration of a space and the potential discoveries therein; 13: Double Exposure - a visual experiment; 14: DOC-U-MEN-TA-RY - the artificiality of reality; 15: The Bureau of Health - the maddening mystery of disease; 16: The Chaos Problem - creating order out of chaos; 17: The Storyteller - inspired by the idea of the unreliable narrator; 18: A Study of Wind Behavior - the discovery of a pattern within nature; 19: Visual Study - the analysis of imagery and the benefits thereof; 20: The Interactive Cinema - a call to eradicate the passivity of the medium; 21: The (Rough) Date of My Death - the use of aleatory techniques to predict mortality; 22: Exploring Spaces: A Documentary Moment - bending a real reality into a movie reality; 23: Documentation of Non-Synchronous Area - the personification and characterization of architecture.