This is a motion picture with just a tiny little bit of motion in it; it's an extended snapshot really. So there's no narrative. Autoportrait is the French for self portrait. Each part of this records somewhere I was in the summer of 2007; what I looked like, how I moved, the limitations of the equipment I had, how I edited, my sensibilities, the film I was capable of - in the real world.

It exists only to be topped. So it's evidence of my recent conversion to Japanese 'continual improvement' philosophy Kaizen; to wit, large-scale pre-planning and extensive project scheduling are replaced by smaller experiments, which can be rapidly adapted as new improvements are suggested.¹

Try to ignore any pixels on my CCD chip that are burnt out. And a couple of people have thought they were seeing a close-up shot of hair in there; it's actually a crop in the agricultural sense.

Talk to me at contact@benjaminknight.name

1. "Kaizen." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 25 Sep 2007, 18:12 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 29 Sep 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaizen&oldid=160295639>.

N.B: another - more straightforward - study is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48omdX_6BfM