FALLING, PHASE ONE. Tipped away from us with the bow high and the bit swinging up, foreshortened so the bow is an oval, turning clockwise. ON PURE WHITE and nothing else, because the wall of memories is built up separately in the compositor and this frame is only the key. GOLD: the world is graphite and this is the only gold in the film. THE WALL IT FALLS IN FRONT OF, DEEPEST FIRST. The film runs backwards behind the key, so the stack is the film in reverse. Each layer is one of the film’s own frames, faded in on cream, all at the same tone so they read as one surface, and the whole wall moves upward while the key stays sharp: 19-5 the key is permission ok 19-4 the answer ok 19-3 the old theory ok 19-1 Viveka's room ok 7-6 the door closes ok 7-3 the lift reaches the head ok 7-2 the body revealed ok 7-1 the hip ok 1-24 the empty page ok 1-16 the face, changed ok 1-14 the face, spent ok 1-11 Manan walks in ok 1-7 the finish ok 1-3 he goes down NOT FOUND under this name 1-1 the avenue NOT FOUND under this name Stitch them in After Effects one atop another. The last two are under different names since the scene one reset and need mapping before the stack is built.

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