Tag: MOntage

BOW A5: Moving image aspect

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I have discussed my reasons for wanting to work with still and moving image together in a previous blog  – See Point 2.

I began L3 very much with moving image in mind and created A1 with a music student, and during A2, where I worked with pic london, I made a film – which could be linked-to in this project in an installation – and web presentation which I will concentrate on in SYP.

However, by A3/A4 I was focused on a publication which will go to print at some point. But I always planned to have that fixed element accompanied by a moving image or series of moving images too. Once I had reached a point with the print version I returned to thinking about a film and visited the store of films I’d identified as possible sources of material earlier on.

I had collected the following:

  • bb_minnie_the_moocher
  • natural history of psychotic illness in childhood
  • the hydrogen atom as viewed by quantum mechanics
  • Eye film cut
  • How_the_Eye_Functions
  • Medicusc1939

Over the months of making this work and the essay, it became clear I was exploring perception and how that is changing.

I also added a couple more films including one about digestion (thinking about Otto Fenical) and

I found this film  (clip)

And played with it a bit, wrote about it here as I begin to use Sketchbook as one means of publicising the work for SYP (WordPress does not strip EXIF data as far as I am aware so it good for SEO) https://sarahjanefieldblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/work-in-progress-found-footage-a-film-about-the-senses/

– editing in other clips to make the following

As much as like the music, it places it somewhere very specific which I didn’t want so tried the music backwards

But it still wasn’t right, even though some comments were, it sounds Russin and therefore relevent to today’s cultural consciousness with al the talk of The Russia  Report) so I approached a couple of composers.  I had worked with. Simon Gwynne wrote the music for my S&O final project .

Simon was more than happy to write something new but he had already been experimenting with an AI programme and I listened to those tracks and some others he’d recently written. I really liked the AI stuff – my son says it reminds him of Minecraft music… which is probably quite appropriate. If I were to install this, I wonder if I could give people a choice – they could choose between the harsh backward version or the gentle AI version perhaps.

I do still need to edit some contemporary animations in, I think. I have been playing with ADOBE Fuse and will see if I can make the animations work – they don’t need to be long and even if I simply screen-record the process, that might work.

Here the film is with some of Simon and his app’s music:

Artist: Gregory Eddi-Jones

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Flowers for Donald is, as stated on Eddi-Jone’s website, “is a series of digital collage work begun in the days following the 2016 U.S. election” (2016-18). I saw these at the Foam exhibtion I went to earlier this year but I must admit they did not draw me in initially. (It was very busy when I went to see the exhibtion and not an ideal scneario for looking – too many people strainging to be seen there that evening.) It was only when looking for references to flowers recently that I really took notice.

I really like that the artists says, “I wouldn’t feel right with myself to make work that doesn’t address this very significant social and political paradigm shift we are undergoing. It is too large to ignore.” I agree.

The work references dadaesque montage which Eddi-Jones suggests are, “strategies of appropriation, collage, and aesthetics of absurdity to reflect instability in political and media environments.” Thinking back to what I wrote yesterday as I responded to Roberta’s feedback , I could refer to Flowers for Donald in my essay however, I’m not sure it addresses her query about why it – “it make no sense to talk about the original photo or film” in post-modernist appropraition work. (I think that is what she means). In my notes yesterday I talked about the articualted nature of Dada montage and the fluidity of today’s infomation language  – I think I would try to incoporate that into anything I do today. Although Eddi-Jones does not do that, he does include screen grabs from news about the election and other remnants of the ‘spectacle’ -note he also includes the iconic opening shot from Society of the Spectacle film. And I mentioed being brave myself and grabbing modern contemporary imagary.

I particualry like the way Eddi-Jones has taken a text as his starting point and the challenge “the role and function of art itself in politically turbulent times” (2016-18)

https://www.gregoryeddijones.com/flowers-for-donald#9

http://hafny.org/blog/2017/1/new-work-in-progress-uses-flowers-for-algernon-as-metaphor-for-donald-trumps-presidency