A Scroll Picture

The Curious
Scroll

In three chapters, with a prologue & a coda

Starring

  • A Pink Hotel
  • and
  • Nine Objects on a Table
  • and
  • A Street That Never Moves

Photographed in

  • Powdered Pink
  • Scout Khaki
  • & Printer’s Ink

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Chapter One

I

The Hotel on the Hill

In which a guest is shown three rooms, and finds each one exactly where it ought to be.

Chapter One · The Hotel

THE LOBBY
THE CONCIERGECONCIERGE
PÂTISSERIE

No. 1 — The Lobby

Two lifts, one staircase, no one waiting.

No. 2 — The Concierge

Every key accounted for. The clock insists it is noon.

No. 3 — The Pâtisserie

Eighteen boxes, tied twice, never opened.

  1. No. 1 — The LobbyTwo lifts, one staircase, no one waiting.
  2. No. 2 — The ConciergeEvery key accounted for. The clock insists it is noon.
  3. No. 3 — The PâtisserieEighteen boxes, tied twice, never opened.

Chapter Two

II

Inventory of a Runaway

Packed the night before, in order of importance, by someone who had thought about it for a very long time.

Chapter Two · The Camp

  1. No.01 Compass

  2. No.02 Record Player

  3. No.03 Scout Badge

  4. No.04 Canteen

  5. No.05 Island Map

  6. No.06 Flashlight

  7. No.07 Letters

  8. No.08 Binoculars

  9. No.09 Pocketknife

Items packed: 0 of 9Items packed: 1 of 9Items packed: 3 of 9Items packed: 4 of 9Items packed: 5 of 9Items packed: 7 of 9Items packed: 9 of 9Items packed: 9 of 9

Chapter Three

III

The Evening Esplanade

A report from a street so well kept that the weekly paper sends someone every week to confirm it is still there.
JOURNAUX

Chapter Three · The Gazette

The Evening Esplanade

Vol. XII · No. 7 · Belle-sur-Brume · Twenty Centimes

A Street That Never Moves

From our correspondent on the esplanade

Fig. 1 — The esplanade at noon, awnings lowered.

The street has not moved since the spring of its founding. The baker opens at six, the kiosk at seven, and the bunting, which was hung for a festival nobody remembers, has simply been left where it looks best.

The End Credits

The Curious Scroll

Direction & Symmetry
The Vertical Axis
Palettes
Powdered Pink · Scout Khaki · Printer’s Ink
Camera
One Pan · One Overhead · One Tilt
Title Cards
Set in Capitals
Film Grain
Randomised, Once
The Hotel
An Illustrated Hotel
The Camp
Nine Objects on a Table
The Gazette
A Street That Never Moves
Projection
Next.js · GSAP · ScrollTrigger · Lenis

An homage to a way of looking. No stills, logos, characters or artwork from any film were used; every room, object and street here is invented.

Fin