Week #5- "Tree"

In considering authorship, I would say that though Welsby is most certainly the creator behind "Tree", he relinquishes some if not all of his control to the audience. The whole piece in itself seems to be meant as meditative, remaining fixed on the same background for the whole film while we sit and contemplate its meaning or mood. So in essence the whole film is somewhat left to our own interpretation since not much appears to be happening. The part of the film where I feel that Welsby really relinquishes control is when the camera tilts slightly towards the left and the image becomes very jostled and unsettling. For me personally it was hard to even keep a steady eye on the screen and I had to turn away multiple times because I was getting nausea. Welsby was presenting me with a choice to either continue on the path he had set out for me as the spectator to follow or to turn back. He left the control to me.