“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.
Colleen A. Laird (2026) studied this question.