Interview with Jordan Crandall on the "Trigger Project"
by Rosanne Altstatt

Rosanne Altstatt: Even though you are most well known for your film and
video work, I'd like to start this interview with a question about your
diagrams. Their dynamics are so different from the slick impressions
your moving images make. The pencil drawings are more intimate, like an
inward spinning force. What is the relationship between the two?

Jordan Crandall: My work begins with these diagrams. They are the key to
everything. They map the processes that give rise to the structure,
content, pacing. And many of them are in a very personal zone, close to
the body