Sunday, December 10, 2006

  • Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol 10 mins. Jonas Mekas

This film is about the maker. As a viewer you are compelled to think what is out there in the film world. It is very audio-visual and single framed. This way the piece portrays everyone as an artist through a diary of "Alternate Heroes". It is more like a music video ratherthan a written diary once you get sucked into the language. The fact that there is no beginning, middle, or end it signifies the order of how memories are stored and brought back into existence. Since only ine song is used throughout it gives the feel of one piece. Although, if the narrative was to be taken out it would bring int he viewer even closer. This can be said about this piece because it does challenge the viewer to piece it together at a point where a camera is just left lying on the table. This enables an image to be viewed at different depths and points of view that in turn changes the entire narrative along the way. Once again different people see things and figure out images in different ways.

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