week 8

By listening to Benning's math lecture I was able to make a few plausible connections to his film "One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later".  The mathematic equations and proofs he drew for us all seemed to share the common theme of uncertainty and beauty.  The first equation he wrote for us was solved correctly yet proved false at the same time with an answer of "1 = 2".  Another mathematical uncertainty he pointed out had to do with probability; if you flip a coin half the time it will be heads and the other half it will be tails.  Such applies to a purely mathematical world.  However, if you were to flip a coin 1 million times the outcome of either heads or tails would not be evenly split.  The outcome of this problem grows with uncertainty as the number of trials increases.  Also, Benning had a unique stance on prime numbers by calling them "beautiful" since they are in a mathematical  sense void of purpose.  

Aside from obeying a very mathematically driven guideline of one shot per minute for 60 minutes, I believe "One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later" is much like the first algebra problem Benning solved.  Having shot 60 locations (with beautiful cinematography) twice but 27 years apart lends itself to the false answer in Benning's first problem - "1" does not equal "2" yet they are products of the same equation.   A red truck would stop in frot of a warehouse in the first film and in the second film we would only hear the truck pull up in front of the still existing yet aged warehouse.  The two shots capture the same location...but do they really? Seeing the locations in different time periods consecutively was a surreal experience especially when using the audio from the first film in the second.