Six-minute single-channel algorithmically composed SD video, composed of still footage shot in urban ruins primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia.

Over 1500 photographs were taken, during 5 or so entirely guerilla operations, at several locations over the course of a few weeks. This pool was edited down to about 300 shots, which can be perused by the intrepidly curious in this Flickr set. These were then sequenced and animated, using a Java2D-based rendering engine. The resultant ~10min of footage was moved into Final Cut Pro and edited traditionally. Titles, and a handful of heavily illustrative segments, were composited in After Effects.

The soundtrack to Work/Bathroom is an original piece by Jesse Stiles. Many of the soundtracks’ percussive and textural elements were distilled from sounds captured in field recordings of the photo shoots themselves.

Work/Bathroom was most recently screened at the Synaesthesiologists New York Video Festival, in the Spring of 2004.