So we had to improvise, we decided to make a little collage on the wall of different small test cast. We putted the images of our sketchbooks in a certain way and it was pretty nice for a backup plan we didn't have !
So yeah it was a bit of a 'bummer' because we were all so exited about this amazing cast.. It's really a shame they threw it away or stole it(whoever 'they' are/is)..
We went around to see the work of the others and it was super nice! A lot of people did great jobs and very intersting stuff !
Afterward we talk a lot with Tracey and she told us that it would have been maybe better with the curtains(hate to say i told you sooooo) because the video kind of emphisised a sort of cocoon ambiance;and also that maybe the sounds wasn't really related... I quite agree as I said yesterday! But she said that with a sound more related the emotions would have been super strong because the video is very emotional, with all the textures etc so she said that if we putted the curtains and the sounds more emotional than 'textued' the piece would have been maybe not better but probably more coherent( at least that's what I understood, and I actually agree a lot but then again the contrast with the audio and the visual is quite wanted).
But then she told us to look at some artists works :
John Smith
"The films of John Smith create a world from the ‘simple’ experiences of living, breathing and being a filmmaker or artist in a particular place and time. Smith's often humorous films produced over the last 30 years have inventively documented and probed his immediate surroundings, often not even moving much beyond the front door of his various abodes in a small area of East London. Nevertheless, it would be wrong to describe Smith's films as overly delicate, preciously insular or purely personal – assignations that the previous description might suggest – as his work sees within the minutiae of familiar surroundings a range of philosophical, aesthetic, technical and quotidian challenges and revelations that extend far beyond the realm of much other comparable cinema. In film after film, Smith explores the cracks within and the tribulations of the world he confronts everyday, taking a closer look at and often transforming (verbally, associatively, just by observing from a different angle) things like a pane of glass, the discolorations of a mouldy ceiling, a hospital water-tower, the archaeology of an ancient toilet, an old shepherd's proverb, or a work he was unhappy with some 20 odd years before. In the process, he makes us look more closely, not just at his films and the cinema generally, but our own surroundings, the everyday world that engulfs us but that we probably routinely dismiss as a suitable subject for contemplation, art and imagination."
From ‘On the Street where You Live: The Films of John Smith’ by Adrian Danks, Senses of Cinema, 2003
I think this describes very well John Smith work. I watched a couple of his films and it is very great, absolutely amazing ! I mean, the sound mezmerize you and you are taken into the film in a way that you don't even 'think' anymore, you are in that state of mind eally vague that when it's finished you can't say if it was a dream or reality. Very strange sensation ! The sound is amazing if I knew this artist before I would have done the sound of our video myself to be as good as this ! Everything is so harmonious and really hypnotizing !
Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America's most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America's most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America's most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."
This video touched me so much. i had to lie down a minute because I felt a strong and vivid pain in my stomach. I cried and I felt like I was falling. This video is just so powerful, so much meanings, and the communication is amazing and the sound is just perfect. I don't know if I want to watch it again, this pain was very vivid, I don't know what it was, but the feelings this video communicates became a physical experience for me and this is very exceptional.
In terms of meaningful videos and the audio/visual relationship I think this video is super nice and intersting to analyse. I wonder if it is random or not tho. Anyway I think that the fact that it's mostly silent really reveals something and put a sort of tension between the music part and the silent. The random Beethoven song really surprise in the whole thing. The noise parts are almost not hear-able, it really 'hurts' the ears, we want to cover them. I think it's definitly a critisism of the modern world we live in and the title also reveals a lot about it, like we all could do that, we could all play god, and change eveything and see everything, being connected everywhere all the time, etc.
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