One thing that always stumps me when making a film is the title of it, and this one was no different. Well, I found it. The title of my experimental film is going to be ‘alea iacta est’, which is Latin for 'the die is cast'.
The phrasing of this is a peculiar one, and so it is quite strange tying it to my experimental film. However, I didn’t stumble upon this phrasing. I am part of an online animation website, where we have a private discord server to talk nonsense and trivial things. During one of these sessions we were discussing Roman Empire Military strategies and tactics, and I searched for a website for us to read up on certain details. Anyway, while reading through it the phrase ‘alea iacta est’ was used in correspondence with some detail about the military, and it got m attention. I looked up the definition and made note of it. I got back to creating more shape animations last week, when the thought of the phrase came into my mind. The phrase refers to die, and although my experimental film is not littered with any obvious Roman symbols, I took note of the number of cubes I created for my project, and made the connection. And that is how I found the phrase 'alea iacta est’ and made it my own.
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