In the 1920s, a group of surrealists invented a parlour game. Writing a word on a sheet, folding it and passing it on to the next person was the rule. The group created the sentence "The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine."
We've evolved this concept for the new media age. Basement Arts collective got together some of Toronto's cutting edge artists, designers and video artists to work on a one minute piece of video starting off with only one frame from the previous person's output.
The goal is to have a seamless and unified piece that is also eclectic, absurd and disparate. It is a collaborative process taping into a collective narrative.
Here's a list of the artists who worked on this project in the order their pieces appear:
Azed Majeed (opening)
Marco Porsia (subway)
Daragh Sankey (yearbook slasher)
Pamela Bayne (death & the token)
Stacey Mantzaros (hand & wine)
Santosh and Pushpa Issac (lucha libre under glass)
Omar Majeed (the masked girl)
Ramone Charles (one is the loneliest number)
Lisa Schwartzman (zombie one-night-stand)
Tharanga Ramanyake (two girls, one room)
Azed Majeed (reprise)