Sunday, December 10, 2006

  • Hackensack Mottet by Gregg Biermann

Digital world that changes world around us. Travel through time and screen viewed not as a flat surface. Sense of depth is portrayed with elements that make up our space. Audience can goin and out. This piece plays with the juxtaposition between the image inside and what the image is.

  • Vertigo times 4 by Les Leveque

Omage to Hitchkock with very fast images something that we have moved on from. This film is a mere act of translation with all narrative ripped. This piece is like the spirit of a movie is re-done. Having landscapes and other mediums in a fast mirrored motion it takes on a form of its own. The images blend and differentiate point of view to the viewer.

  • Strain Andromeda The (1992) Ann McGuire

A push pull is exherted in this movie. Pictures depict the backwards motion in time while the narrative moves forward in time. Words are also created front to back creating a paranoid fanatsy. Therefore, the audience is brought into it accepting the unreal when suddenly certain images make sense. This poses a question what makes certain images fit and others not.

  • Mayhem by Abigail Child

Bunch of found footage with a lot of funky stuff. It exhibits areas of montage getting a mixture bewteen what is real and what isn't. This piece gives the viewer a sense that something is going to happen. Therefore, it is mixed and charged so you can't tell apart between violence and sex. What is bottled up comes out narratively. Towards the end audience is glad to be in one space and laugh at what is not seen. It can be viewed as silly due to the music with cartoon sensibility.

  • Got til It's Gone Mark Romanek

This film is portrayed in a style of photography through paradime of mugshots. The audience is challenged to think about what is power since everyone is in the same state. the nature of reproduction is being questioned as well. This film also evokes how imagination is internalized, but films turn it back.

  • Hostage (he bachar tapes) Wallid Rand

This film is in a documentary style creating a fake world based on facts. The director is in control of what is cut and edited in or out of this film. As audience views this they are compelled towards how real it is due to the extent of weirdness that it leaves them with nothign else but the feeling that it's got to be real. Here you can see the representation of an image using something mainstream for something that is not. In addition, this film evokes archival history and how we piece fragments together.

  • Media Burn (1975-2003) Ant Farm Collective

This film attacks the spectacle by creating one. The video is much more conscious of the TV while this film is about the subconsciousness to media. This film is about anti-commodity with an idea that image is refracted through culture. This entire piece is about our expectations with a pool of reactions channelling within.