Sonder
Hey, everyone. Here's a movie I made for a class project last March, in a class called Writing London. My prompt was the flaneur. I could've just made a Powerpoint, but the thought of that made me want to gag. So here we are. Special thanks to Chase Lau for filming. Hope you enjoy.<br /><br />Sonder<br />filmed March 11 & 15, 2018, London<br />edited March 21-24, 2018, Vienna<br />premiered March 28, 2018, London<br />uploaded July 25, 2018, New York<br />16:36, 2546 mb<br /><br />Music and External Links:<br />intro song: "Wandering" by June 7 and Hako Yamasaki<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Lq5rp2VBE<br />beat: "Sonder" by me<br /><br />Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows website: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/<br />sonder definition:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4<br />to learn more about the flaneur: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/17/in-praise-of-the-flaneur/<br /><br />“Sonder. You are the main character—the protagonist—the star at the center of your own unfolding story. You're surrounded by your supporting cast: friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit. <br /><br />Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances who drift in and out of contact over the years. <br /><br />But there in the background, faint and out of focus, are the extras. The random passersby. Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own. <br /><br />They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs and inherited craziness. <br /><br />When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place, wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes and characters strung together with countless other stories you'll never be able to see. That you'll never know exists. <br /><br />In which you might appear only once. As an extra sipping coffee in the background. As a blur of traffic passing on the highway. As a lighted window at dusk.” <br /><br />― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows