Lazy Susan VISUAL DESCRIPTIONS
Visual descriptions are offered below for my work, Lazy Susan:
0:00 - A circular, low-lying golden platform sits in the middle of a room. The room has white walls, windows covered by white curtains, and a dark brown floor. There are neon lights on the ground beside the platform, on the right and left sides, along with a few plants sitting in the corners of the room.
0:10 - There is a close up of shadows lying on a golden surface—the shadows fall in the shapes of window frames and plant life blowing in the breeze outside the room. The shadows begin to rotate, as there is a turning motion that becomes visible on the golden surface. The surface is eventually filled with bright light.
1:09 - A figure in an emerald green shirt and neon pink pants is facing away from the viewpoint of the camera. Their hands are on the ground. Their ass is in the air, and they are walking on the surface of the golden platform, causing it to rotate with their footsteps. The golden platform is revealed to be a type of rotating table called a lazy susan in this moment.
1:32 - Now the figure is standing upright, with one hand behind them braced against the back wall of the room. Their face isn’t visible—only their arm and the light skin of their visible hand and their unsteady feet as they try to walk backward on the surface of the lazy susan, rotating it. They lift their arm in the air.
1:43 - They sit in front of the camera; their face still is not visible. They have a black mesh shirt under their green emerald shirt, that peeks out beneath their sleeves and collar. They slap their hands together in front of the camera abruptly. They do it again.
1:51 - A series of movements unfolds with the figure on the platform, who is revealed to be white femme presenting with brown, straight, longish hair.
They crouch low, waving their arm and then jutting it in front of them in a sequential motion.
Then we see their face as they push their body repetitively up away from the platform into a low stance and flap their arm above their head.
They stand twisting side to side and then jump suddenly, jutting their hands out in front of their hips and pointing fingers down.
They sit in front of the camera on the platform, reach out their arms horizontally, and shake sequentially down their body, starting from their head and moving down to their hips.
They descend from a standing position to face away from the camera, reaching out their arms, lifting their pelvis slightly and then putting it back down.
In the last shot, they kneel with head down at the edge of the lazy susan and reach their hands and fingers toward and away from the camera in a continuous, sliding motion.
2:38 - A view of the lazy susan from above shows the femme’s two hands on its surface. They caress the edge of the lazy susan gently. They put their head down on the surface, adjust their position, and use one arm to rotate the lazy susan so that their body moves out of the camera’s view.
3:37 - The gold surface of the lazy susan shows up again in the camera frame. It rotates quickly, while shadows twirl in and out of the camera frame. It stops rotating briefly, and then it shifts again one last time.
4:04 - The femme places their two hands on the surface of the lazy susan and caresses it repeatedly. Only their hands and wrists are visible, revealing that they are wearing the emerald green shirt again. They stop and bring their palms together, cupping their hands slowly by bringing each opposing finger tips to touch (except their thumbs).
5:08 - We see them laying on the platform looking at the camera. In the next shot, they crawl underneath it and we see they are now in black pants with red stripes down the sides.
5:23 - A series of shots unfold from the view above the lazy susan:
The femme caresses their left shin with their hands.
They make the movement of a jellyfish with their hands and fingers, undulating in and out.
They press against the center of their palm with two fingertips.
They rub their pinky fingers together slowly.
6:39 - In this more distant shot, they stand on all fours with their feet on the lazy susan and their hands on the ground. They walk on the lazy susan, causing it to rotate, first slowly and then quickly. Abruptly, they release their hands and crumple down, allowing the momentum of the lazy susan to carry them away. Their emerald shirt has come up around their head and shoulders. They sit up and reach out an arm as their shirt falls back down their torso.
7:47 - There is a ruffling appearance of green fabric moving in front of the camera frame, revealing and obscuring one of the bright neon lights through its fibers. The fabric lifts. The light is revealed.
8:11 - The femme sits in front of the camera and we can only see their arms and chest. They rub their forearms with their hands rapidly, clap, and then appear as though they will clap again. The frame changes.
8:23 - A series of scenes unfolds:
The femme moves onto the lazy susan in various ways.
They make it rotate with the force of their body by pushing themselves onto it from the ground using either their hands or their feet.
They stumble and manage to keep the table rotating with just their hands.
They use their hands to rotate the lazy susan with a purple potted plant on it, near the edge of its surface. The plant glides under their torso as they spin the lazy susan.
9:33 - The purple plant is on the floor tipped over, and there is an arch of soil that has spilled out neatly beside it. The plant is a purple shamrock in a terra cotta pot.
9:43 - Another series of scenes unfolds:
The plant is in the foreground, tipped over.
The plant’s leaves partially obscure the femme, who is in the background. The femme is face down at the edge of the lazy susan, with their hands reaching out in front of them.
Their wrists are to together and their fingers splayed in a sort of spider-like shape.
After some stillness, they repetitively draw their hands in towards themselves and slide them out towards the plant and the camera.
They rock back and forth on their feet behind the tipped-over plant with their hands on the lazy susan and their pelvis in the air. [“I know its a hard time…”]
They have taken off their emerald shirt since the last scene and are only wearing their mesh shirt and black pants. Their back is to the camera. The plant is still foregrounded in the same position.
They lean back.
Their hands are raised into the same spider-like shape, this time above their head as they are lying on the lazy susan. They tip their body to one side. They crumple behind the foregrounded plant and reach a hand off the lazy susan toward it, touching it’s pot, leaves, and stems.
They make the spider like shape, with hands outstretched and face down at the edge of the lazy susan. They touch their finger tips together and open them up again quickly—pulling their hands back towards their body and then extending them repetitively. They bump the foregrounded plant, which rocks back and forth in its pot.
The femme uses one arm to rotate the lazy susan while lying on it.
11:50 - The femme sits in front of the camera in their emerald green shirt again, caressing the palm of one hand with the middle finger of another.
12:03 - The femme is pictured from farther away. They are making a backwards bridge on the lazy susan with their body. The purple shamrock has been tipped upright, but its soil is still on the ground.
The femme pushes their pelvis down with their hands.
12:22 - The femme is pictured close up again, pressing the palm of one hand with two fingers of the other. They touch their face and forearms.
12:37 - The camera shows a view from above. The femmes thighs, hands and forearms (in just black mesh and pants) are in the camera frame, as well as a green cactus that sits between their legs. They caress the cactus’ bowl, caress it with their thumps, and then palpate the palm of their own hand again. They touch the cactus, diving their fingers deep into it. It is not a prickly cactus.
14:03 - The femme is pictured close up wearing the emerald green shirt again. They caresses their fingers in front of the camera, weaving, scissoring, and rubbing them gently.
14:22 - The femme rocks back and forth in front of the camera, as it rotates. They lean forward and back several times, revealing their shoulder, parts of their head, and then their full face.
14:46 - The femme is only wearing the mesh shirt, sitting with their back to the camera. They rock back and forth, rotating as the camera follows. They have a small dark mole on their back. They scoot toward the camera, sit still for a moment, and then turn to look at the camera.
15:15 - The femme sits on the lazy susan in a blue jumpsuit. They are unbuttoning the buttons at the cuffs of their sleeves. They lean forward toward the lazy susan’s edge, and the camera goes dark.