Can an Image Scanner Tell a Story?

Well, I managed to miss World Storytelling Day yesterday, and I’m not going to make humanists any happier today by talking about storytelling by an inanimate object today.

Of course, there really is a person (Damon Stea) behind the storytelling in this digital story, “Memoirs of a Scanner,” but the tale is set up as though it’s coming from an image scanner. (I got a bit confused by the video’s use of “copier” and “scanner” interchangeably and even more confused when I saw the video was shot entirely on a Canon Flatbed Computer Scanner). Love the fast-pace, aided by music by Coconut Monkey Rocket and Martinibomb.

How well does a story from the point of view of an image scanner come off?

(Many thanks to Stephanie West Allen for alerting me to this one.)

Memoirs of a Scanner (Martinibomb Version) from Mindfruit on Vimeo.

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