Thought Moments
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Thought Moments (2004) is an anthropological short film in the style of cinéma vérité by Michael Simon Toon.[1] Toon, a former Buddhist monk,[2] titled Thought Moments after the Buddhist term for the mental states we experience when a physical or mental object enters the mind.[3] The film is used in the study of microexpressions, eye accessing cues, and the universality of facial expressions.[4]
Toon (off camera) interviews a diverse sample of individuals in public places across the United Kingdom asking a set of ten simple but emotionally evocative questions.[5][6] The film uses variable frame rates to highlight distinct emotions, as well as their sequence and timing, that each individual expresses within seconds or fractions of a second after being asked questions, such as "What do you love most?" "Are you happy or sad?" and "What are you afraid of?"[7]
Consistency of composition, lighting, and contrast facilitates the analysis of both the differences and similarities of the interviewees' facial expressions.[8][9] Toon also released a version of the film with superimposed theoretical eye accessing cue chart.[10] Both versions are studied and reproduced by students of psychology in several languages.[11][12][13]
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