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the challenge: Group filmmaking. In the spirit of Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, remake Jørgen Leth's 1967 short film The Perfect Human according to several obstructions. Each of the seven members of the group must devise a rule or a roadblock in the process that will require creative resolution. Execute the entire project—directing, filming, editing, scoring, and narrating —in 24 hours. the obstructions: 1. more than seven people have to appear in the final film. 2. adapt three sentences from Dog Training for Dummies into the script. 3. the perfect human must interact with technology at some point in the film. 4. while eating. 5. scenes should contain two humans instead of one (or four instead of two). 6. the film must not include whole faces. 7. every scene must contain impromtu text. |