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About Me
- Laura
- I am senior in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. I also studied ArtScience/Image & Sound at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten & the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, Nederlands during Fall 2009. I am interested in exploring the human body and emotional experiences through a variety of media, especially film, performance, & sculpture.
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I really liked the choice of music with editing you did, the texture of the sounds really felt the same as what I was seeing visually.
-Josh
I think the music was a great choice, it aids the visuals very well. I just didn't understand the meaning of some of the repeated photographs that were apart of it.
I feel like the piece is attempting to communicate a relationship of affection between two people, and attributes of their experience or identities that perhaps brought them together and/or that they share(d). Seems like a break up piece (no judgement associated with that comment) because the lyrics, song by a woman say "can't stay" the female character moves away from the man at times.
So, what is key for me is the issue of repetition. Memory can come back in flashes. I've attached a clip from Stardust Memories by Woody Allen that uses "coverage" (repeated shots of same lines to try to give the director different clips to edit) of the actress as if it were the main character remembering and then re envisioning the same conversation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTrR260rBI&feature=player_embedded
So, I think I like the repetition of the images/content because it tells the viewer that something is being mulled over, reconsidered, but I desire for more individual moments, discrete bits of information that only occur once and then are fleeting. That way there can be a hierarchy of experience and memory for the audience to then interpret as the priority of your memory and experience...
Umm, like the ending of Amelie, where she is riding on the back of the scooter, it's all sped up and jittery and then there is a close up of her smelling his neck, momentarily at the end, it is the most memorable part of that sequence.
uh, more later
nother bit from Stardust memories, sorry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3GOu0HuMP4&feature=player_embedded
I really like your choice of music and the choice to make it black and white. The movement of the two figures is also very interesting and all in all it works really well together. I have never done video before but really enjoy it as a media, and this video is just another one that makes me really want to get into it. I get the same feeling that andrew does about it being possibly about a break up because the music is a bit eary but beautiful all at the same time, and the dynamic between the two figures gives off a sort of love lost relationship. All in all i thought it was extremely well done and I'm very jealous of your video skills :) (in the best way of course)
-Erica
This video is really beautiful and emotive. I can really see your dance background coming out in this piece--the way the movements of the bodies correspond not only with the music but with each other. They complement each other completely.
I guess trying to see this video through the lens of this class, I'm wondering what relation this has to recycling and the "lifecycle" mentioned in the prompt. In the sense of recycling as making sustainable artwork, then the piece works...nothing is being wasted besides edited video clips. I wonder since these are "digital memories", if the lifecycle of the piece starts with the creation of the memories, the assemblage of them in your mind, and then finally complete in your artistic work. What happens to the piece afterward? The film has the aesthetic like the memories are already kind of fuzzy or hazy, and throughout time (maybe during a public showing of this piece), the film plays on a loop, getting hazier and hazier until all forms are abstracted and finally disappear. I don't know what you had intended for the rest of the "lifecycle", but there's just an idea. Overall, I really appreciate this video and I'm jealous of your video skills too.
I really enjoy how well you crafted the video, images, and sound to work together in unison. I see the piece as a lost relationship. The repetition makes me believe that the women talking the in the background is trying to recall or hold onto a memory that is fading away.
However, I am asking the same questions as Heather in relation to the assignment as a life cycle. I'm guessing the documentation is your memories through sounds, dance, and images, which you then incorporated into artwork. I am curious to see how you will disassemble these memories or this piece. Maybe you'll explain it in class ;)
Another question though. Since you mentioned that this is a work in progress, how do you see this continuing??? Are you going to continue with the same theme? A series of faded memories in short clips like this could be interesting too!
Loved it!
-Lindsay
Hey Laura,
I was really impressed with how you synced up moments of video and audio, particularly that one ba papapa rhythm moment. I also think you found some nice images and blend them together really well, colorwise, thematically, and rhythmically. Nice use of effects too, not overdone, fairly subtle.
In general, I think it's a nice video, very emotional, and illustrates your knowledge and understanding of dance. It's cool to see dance portrayed in video the way you've done it.
More critiquey comments/questions:
Do you have a context for the piece? Is it for the internet, for a larger film, a larger short, or for a gallery, tv etc.? Perhaps if you had more dance videos as such, you could build on a broader, more holistic vision.
Good job!
scott
I've decided I don't care for the toppling over of the two lovers 3/4 of the way in, kinda weird and awkward. Maybe it happens to quickly, much of the rest of the footage seems to playback slower than real time. I do however care for the "ending" with the and caressing the nose, that has a sweetness to it...
the whole thing is nice visually and those nice visuals relate well to the music. It is pretty! and nice dancing things and things!
also, are the still photographs the recycled images?
I guess I am just not very fond of the narrative you have set up. blah blah people like eachother, blah blah blah tension. but I have a cold, cold heart.
I think the part that is the strongest is the little thing going on at the very end.
_EMMILY
the footage you took is fantastic...and your effects on it are really appropriate but the images dont work as well for me. maybe if they were more abstracted like you had talked about...it just seems a little horror film with the black and white really high contrastness. but i understand what you're going for with the flashes.
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