Sonder

Hey, everyone. Here's a movie I made for a class project last March, in a class called Writing London. My prompt was the flaneur. I could've just made a Powerpoint, but the thought of that made me want to gag. So here we are. Special thanks to Chase Lau for filming. Hope you enjoy.

Sonder
filmed March 11 & 15, 2018, London
edited March 21-24, 2018, Vienna
premiered March 28, 2018, London
uploaded July 25, 2018, New York
16:36, 2546 mb

Music and External Links:
intro song: "Wandering" by June 7 and Hako Yamasaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Lq5rp2VBE
beat: "Sonder" by me

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows website: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
sonder definition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4
to learn more about the flaneur: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/17/in-praise-of-the-flaneur/

“Sonder. You are the main character—the protagonist—the star at the center of your own unfolding story. You're surrounded by your supporting cast: friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit.

Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances who drift in and out of contact over the years.

But there in the background, faint and out of focus, are the extras. The random passersby. Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs and inherited craziness.

When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place, wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes and characters strung together with countless other stories you'll never be able to see. That you'll never know exists.

In which you might appear only once. As an extra sipping coffee in the background. As a blur of traffic passing on the highway. As a lighted window at dusk.”

― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows