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Weekly Video Review #10
Rabbit | Future Shorts :
It was fun to see words written on all the animals and objects on the screen. But all of a sudden, it was so strange that the girl cut the rabbit in half using a knife and showed the cross section and the idol popped out of it. The idols seduced the children by magic, and the children did not hesitate to kill the animals to collect the jewels. However, the idol eventually kills the children and enters the rabbit again and leaves the house leisurely.
Fast Film 2003 :
Video made it possible to move places quickly using origami methods. A more dramatic production was also possible. For example, a train approaches quickly and a person's expression changes quickly. I focused on emotional and behavioral changes between characters. I think the writer is a genius. It's so great that you just ripped, pasted, folded, and cut the paper to make this whole story. In particular, the scene where a man falls onto the railroad track and luckily comes back on the train when shooting next to a running train made me deeply immersed in this work.
Jan Svankmajer - Et Cetera :
It was so cute and impressive that the character that seemed to be drawn in the mural chose wings and flew. Second, he teaches animals to circus, and the more he trains them, the more he becomes an animal and the more he becomes a human. Third, he drew a house with a pencil to build it. However, he acts very foolishly, such as drawing from inside the house not to go out or from outside not to go inside. I wonder what the artist wanted to explain through this work. Although the theme of the work was not clearly conveyed, the repetitive expression made the video more lively.
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Weekly Video Review #9
Studio Visit with Filmmaker Lewis Klahr :
Lewis Klahr uses old magazines from 40's and cuts them into images he wants use and moves around scene, similars to puppeteering. His use of shadows and distortion using glasswares were great inspiration to use not just element and different colors but using shadows and distortion of light to give a depth into the art.
Lewis Klahr – Pony Glass :
The man meets a girl then the tells love to the girl until the girl leaves him for other man. After the girl leaves him he founds and falls love with other guy and gets into relationship. From this video it feels like that is about the man that got left out by a girl is not wasting his time and trying to seek what he truly wants and loves. But because this story is about changes of relationship with different people it seems like that the story isn't the best fit for the theme due to how relationship with people might portrayed as easily replaceable by making new relationship.
Lewis Klahr – Altair :
Video has a lot of different element moving through the scene including cards, liquors, a man ,and a lady. It seems like artist is trying to tell us about relationship at the beginning of the video but as it continues the man shows up less. But contrary to that lady shows up more often as a smaller image, following up with more objects. This seem to imply how lady is treated or objectified which might explain queen card always showing up with jokercard. Overall, this video feels like it is not delivering the clear message due to too many elements moving across scene without any pattern, or lacking of time and methods in the video to let viewers understand the message.
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Weekly Video Review #8
ROBIN RHODE :
I drew a longboard on the floor and saw him ride on it as if riding on it. Another is a picture of a bicycle on the wall and a picture of him trying to ride it. Both works have something in common that they used walls, floors, or other objects in addition to the human body. When I make video art, I use various things, and I learned how to express my thoughts more efficiently. The artist showed various examples and introduced appropriate and unusual works that fit the situation.
pan with us by David Russo :
I took a picture in a row and connected it to make it look like a video. The most impressive part was that many people created the work together to create a bird flying. I thought it would be enough to inspire me when I do other projects. The technology of turning pictures into videos was great.
“I Am (Not) van Gogh” by David Russo” :
The production of the clock rolling on the road with people was so fun because it eventually fell off. And it was impressive to see a man walking around with a painting in a crowd as if the man in the painting was running. It shows the connection between the two works using a method similar to the expression of the bird's wings in pan with us by David Russo. Finally, this technology is one of the things I really want to apply to other projects.
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Weekly Video Review #7
RE-ANIMATED: ARRIVAL by Jakob Kudsk Steensen :
Video starts from up high in the sky showing ocean and slowly comes down and zooms into island. when it comes to the ground level the voice narrates about situation and changes of the island from perspective of island. Using Cgi to narrate the story of an island and, what it seems like an extincted bird. It gave me a new perspective of using 3d technology to express the story in video format.
WE ARE OPPOSITE LIKE THAT, PART 2 by Himali Singh Soin :
Glacier shows up at the beginning and from seeing surroundings it seems like it is Antarctica with dirts under Ices. Person with mysterious outfit comes out of glacier and travels around different places where human seemed to have occupied before. When the person comes back to ice it disappears in to the ice. In the video, showing the surroundings of a glacier and transitioning to being from the ice seeing the traces of human shows big contrast between situations of us humans and nature where ice belongs. thus the title "We Are Opposite Like That".
Artist : Aki Sasamotoin Art 21 :
Artist comes to bar and stares in to the bar table. Then artist starts conversation with bartender and talks about the control, and how state of perfect control is what enables us to embrace the uncontrollable aspect of pure chaos. From that sentence artist said, i felt confirmed by someone by having similar thoughts about control, or at least concept of trying to control. Personally when creating videogames when you put full control of details of your work and shape it how i exactly want it, the game itself tells me what it wants to be and finishes itself. This video personally feels like confirming my way of creating games and arts and guiding me through my future creative work.
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Weekly Video Review #6
Copy Shop - by Virgil Widrich, 2001 :
The main character's life is filmed from waking up from the bed in the morning listening to the alarm. And he heads to the copy shop as usual. As soon as he starts working, he makes a mistake of copying his hands, and after that day he meets a doppelganger who looks like him. And as the day went by, people just like themselves appeared, and eventually the world was full of themselves. I watched the same scene more than five times in this video and saw countless main characters. They live a fixed life, and one of them jumps on the roof and jumps. After that, it felt like a completely different world would appear. The only other scene in the same scene made a big impact on me.
Meshes of the Afternoon – Maya Deren (1943) :
I saw a woman chasing a nun, and she went into the house, saw the bread on the table, and took the knife on the floor. This scene is repeated in this work. The woman hides the knife and repeatedly stabs someone. However, the woman who repeated such an act has a man in front of the woman who was eventually killed and died at the end of the work. The setting in which a woman considered the main character eventually dies and a man appears in repeated videos was very bizarre.
Stan Brakhage Mothlight :
It is a video of several parts of a moth and winding it up quickly. As soon as I saw this video, I thought it was a moth because of the strange pattern of the wings of the moth. And I clearly showed each part separately, but strangely, I felt like a moth was flying. I felt that the human brain adapts easily in repeated images and pictures. The video shows the moth quickly and ends. Frankly, it was difficult to find the author's intention in this video.
Simbiosis Carnal :
It is a work that expresses the passion of the present era well. I saw various animals and people's sexual behavior and checked how they expressed it. For a long time, for species breeding, female and male creatures on Earth met to love and gave birth to offspring. However, humans consider more than this concept. Better body, thicker lips, a more voluminous chest and life after marriage. Seeing repeated animals, including humans, sexual behavior made human lives different from other animals stand out more.
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Weekly Video Review #5
Bill Viola: Cameras are soul keepers :
I saw slow motion videos taken with cameras in this work. The camera constantly follows things, captures them, and captures more than just matter. Even though it was a video of ordinary water, I felt a strange feeling that reminded me of my childhood memories. I think this is exactly what the writer meant. We take a lot of pictures of objects, people, and landscapes with cameras, but we didn't really look at the back of the situation at that time. We now feel it's natural to capture something with a camera. But after watching this video, I thought that the camera played a very important role in creating more artwork.
Pipilotti Rist: We get used fast to constraints :
We are accustomed to constraints. Why do you want to watch videos only on square TV? Why do you want to hear sounds only on a rectangular radio? It is that we are limiting the medium of seeing and hearing by ourselves. I think this is a very important point in terms of creating video art. I want to express my own world by breaking away from what I think is natural.
Pipilotti Rist Interview at ACCA :
This video tells me how to access video art to make it easier to understand. I saw intense colors and free-moving objects in the video. And I understood how they interact in harmony through the artist's explanation. I thought that video art should naturally focus on filming something, but before that, I realized that it was important to understand things first. I think the key is what the color of the object to be photographed is and how I can express my thoughts through this object. This writer always inspires me!
Pfeiffer SEGMENT: in "Time" :
I've seen a lot of looping videos for 1-2 seconds in this video. And in the repetition, I tried to feel more than the meaning of the object. Bill Viola: Cameras are soulkeepers and the idea of capturing things behind them feels very similar. Video art has the disadvantage of being able to see only the movement itself because the picture or object is moving. I've made that mistake over and over again. However, after watching this video, I realized that it was important to be able to find and sympathize with the implications even for a short animation.
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Weekly video Review #4
VOICE OVER :
I admire the expression of a little boy's first kiss in so many different ways. At the beginning of this work, three breathtaking situations came out and I felt like I was the main character of this work. As time ran out, I wanted to get out of each situation, but the reality that I couldn't was frustrating. If it is a general story, it will stop with this frustrating feeling, but this work was rather similar to my experience because it was to express the first kiss in the end. Because my heart was pounding when I kissed my first time in my life.
The gunfighter – (voice by Nick Offerman) :
I personally like western movies and I was very excited to see that it would be a gunfight between people when I guessed the title. Contrary to my expectations, it was so refreshing that the story was carried out by the characters and the narrator communicating with each other and this gave me a lot of fun. The voices continued to induce the characters to fight each other, and the characters rebelled against the voices. And the man who is believed to be the main character induces everyone to not fight in the middle, but it eventually led to a gun fight and only one survived. The conversation between the voice and the characters was so funny.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist :
Compared to the universe, I thought that humans died in too short a life and were like dust. Looking at the future-oriented universe, it was fascinating because it was very similar to the universe that I had imagined while watching various movies since I was young. Humans do not know where they started like wanderers, but there is a journey of individual life. All humans in the universe are in the same position from a cosmological point of view, but they live with their own thoughts and passion. Looking at this work, I had an opportunity to think again about how I should live and what I am. I thought that the human being who constantly pioneered the universe was so great even though it seemed to be immersed in the existence of the universe itself.
Luis :
The whole time I watched it, it was bizarre and creepy. The voice, the atmosphere of the house, and the facial expression drawn on the wall overwhelmed the overall atmosphere of the video. It seemed to use a stop motion technique and it seemed to take a very long time to make this painting. In the middle of the video, I wondered how the video was made when I saw the light of oil and other lights moving when the face on the wall blew through my mouth.
Maybe One Day :
It's what I always imagined. I watched this video and saw a man who felt bored and tired in the same routine. After a set morning routine, I go to work as scheduled. But he spent the day imagining things he wanted to do. He imagines and lists things that he wanted to do once in a lively way. Wouldn't it be okay for me to live like that for a day? The writer also seemed to have told me a good bucket list of breaking away from the set daily life through this video.
Losers :
There are many children who are bullied in the video. Each is bullied for different reasons, and I honestly wondered why those reasons lead to bullying. Even when I was a high school student, my friends around me were bullied and the perpetrators just seemed to need something to relieve their desires. They never bother alone. Is it really the winner who bullies other students in groups and gets satisfaction from them? Do they really deserve to be called losers for bullying students? As shown later in the video, the real losers are the outcasts. I want to show this video to students at school.
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Weekly Video Review #3
Window by Peter Greenaway :
Through the window, I can see a village with very quiet and warm sunlight, and the child is sitting and playing in the window. However, the narrator continues to explain how several people were thrown out of the window and died. I realized that the scene and the commentary were completely contradictory and focused more on the narration. The village was so peaceful that the story of someone falling from the window and dying sounded even more powerful. The writer would have wanted viewers to feel awkward in a contrasting atmosphere and focus on what the commentator said. Because when you throw political prisoners out of the window and kill them in a South African prison camp, you change them for a lot of crazy reasons.
Lost Book Found by Jem Cohen (video review) :
It was filmed in New York, the capitalist center. Along with the narration, it shows how the market in New York has developed and how people living in New York live. It shows that the color of the video is very dark and the human expression is dark, making viewers feel the background of the colorful New York at night. The writer eventually shows New York, where the gap between the rich and the poor has widened through capitalism.
“La jetée” by Chris Marker :
The man is being tortured to travel through time. Through time travel, he goes to the pre-war world, meets a woman, and falls in love with her. And one day the man realizes that his life is numbered. But he goes to the past to see her without asking for help from future scientists. And die in front of her on board. This work shows an imaginary post-World War III image and was greatly impressed that no matter how unwanted torture he was, he decided his own death.
Ilha Das Flores (1989) :
I think it left the strongest impression on me among the works I saw recently. The work satirizes the social scene of poor people living in garbage piles, searching for food and items that can be sold back. I saw a Japanese owner of a bright-faced tomato farm and he lives by selling tomatoes. A woman makes perfume using flowers and sells the perfume to buy tomatoes and pork that ate tomatoes. The average person sells and buys things and lives in a happy family. But people who are poor and have to pick up trash don't have the same opportunity as tomatoes.
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Weekly Video Review #2
Gong by Maria Antolini :
I saw a very peaceful village where people lived in harmony. However, with the appearance of giant snails, the village was attacked indiscriminately. People were coaxed to death by snails, and the person who ran away from them eventually died. Suddenly, the atmosphere was reversed, and the background music came out contrary to the previous one and kept me in suspense. It was a work where I could feel the strangeness of humans in the harmony of humans.
Photocopy Cha Cha (Choreography for Copy Machine) [Sundance 2001] :
I watched a video of parts of the human body repeating to the background music. The song is very exciting and people move their faces to the beat and their heads and arms. Weirdness was felt in the expected continuity. Man apparently moved his body but seemed to have no significant meaning and was like a corpse. The later part of the video was even more bizarre. The artist showed the faces of a repeated person with intense color and expressionless expression, making viewers feel uncomfortable.
Pipilotti Rist Interview: Freeing the Wonderlight (25 min) :
I saw a woman wearing makeup rubbing her face against the glass in various directions. I also saw a scene where a naked woman put her tongue in the water and lay in the forest with jewels on her body. It was a scene that was generally far from our lives. The artist wants to deviate from the rules that we basically have when expressing something artistically. We want to break the framework of our fixed thinking and challenge new areas. I think this work is the best because it helped me a lot mentally when I made video art.
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Weekly Video Review #1
Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image :
video was filmed with camera that was meant to see infrared light that we can't see. Because of that video was mainly pink and had little bit of washed out color. Just like the camera intended to see the infrared light that are invisible to our naked human eyes, the artist decided to film conflict that are unknown to people. And by doing so artist was able to show people that were invisible to people.
South Africa - Mohau Modisakeng - Passage - Venice Biennale 2017 :
I see the person with black cloth with umbrella lying in the white boat in the dark ocean. video continues to focus on person on the boat and shows from different perspectives and angles. people in the video gave in to the subtle waves, letting their body to be controlled by ocean whether they are willing to or not to visualize the movements of people from south africa as cargos.
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