The Most unCertain Hour
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: “The Most unCertain Hour” explores constraint-based videographic practice by engaging with “Laird’s Constraint,” a parametric exercise created by Ariel Avissar derived from my earlier work “Eye-Camera-Ninagawa” (2022). Utilizing multi-screen collage, thematic sorting, and split-screen montage, it reflects on the tension between self-imposed rules and creative excess, while staging a meta-conversation about authorship, adaptation, and the cultural persistence of apocalyptic imagination. The video further offers an interrogation of cultural narratives of crisis, heroism, and collective memory via comparative analysis of Marvel Studios’ logo sequences (2002–2017) and the 1963 Astro Boy opening.
Source: Screenworks
Author: Colleen Laird
Institution: University of British Columbia
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7126051376
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