specialist techniques : looking at more artists

I wanted to continue my unit by looking at some more artists that use film, i wanted to make a list and comment on some works that i enjoyed/ connected with from a CD of experimental film.

rainer gamsjaeger - state of flux

( http://rainergamsjaeger.com/ )

I really liked the videoseries "state of flux".

This video, to me, is about the crazy nature of water, the water is flowing but changing and in a water system making it appear abstracted and almost alien. When i first saw this video i thought of wool in a rotating machine, it did not seem like water to me. I did not think it was a machine i thought it was edited! I get a huge sense of power from this but i also find it very relaxing and beautiful. So simple but complex.

Juste le temps - Robert Cahen

( http://robertcahen.com/)

This short film i think tells the story of two people who are about to cross paths, i like the jump between landscape and interior and between being asleep and being awake... the sound is very effective between loud and at times complete silence.

Dog star man - Stan brakhage

Dog Star Man is a series of short experimental films comprising of a prelude and four parts.

It shows various recurring imagery.

Prelude: Dog Star Man (1961)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)

What i really like about this use of imagery is how it jumps around so much. I really like how disturbing some of the imagery is.

Un Chien Andalou Bunuel Dali

CREEPY! i love how much this is like a dream, it makes no sense, its funny and its completely crazy! I decided to make a film inspired by this but keeping the theme of fear in mind.

This film i decided to make inspired by my dreams, the sleep paralysis i have makes me feel like i can breath due to the slowness in breathing when i am asleep i can't take deep breaths when i "wake up". I tried to keep in mind the speed of images and the sound.

I wanted to try and capture that in this so i used a lot of imagery of my mouth struggling to breath and a lot of distorted imagery of my face - as it is happening to me. I also sped up the film in the middle to try and capture the feeling of wanting to breath heavily and the panic. I really like the end result and am working on creating more.

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Art & Design Portfolio - Sam Cornwell (Digital)

I decided to start my research on paper based and digital portfolios by first looking at a digital portfolio. One artist who came into the college to do a talk was a photographer called Sam Cornwell, he took us through his digital portfolio. I wanted to think about why his portfolio was digital and not paper based. One of the biggest advantages of a digital portfolio is the accessibility of it. It is easy to send out to employers or people wishing to view it. It is digital so it can easily be send to someone via email or put on a USB and accessed that way. Another reason is unlike a paper based portfolio there is more than one, it is easy to dispatch without spending money on paper to print. It is also instant, you might have to wait a few days for a paper port folio to be sent by mail or spend money on travel to bring it to the person wishing to view it. With a digital portfolio one click and it is sent! I went onto Sam Cornwell's page and found out his portfolio is on his web...

Starting experimenting with photography

After looking into the work of Henry Weston i decided to try and experiment,first, with negative space. It was something that stood out to me a lot in some of his work, as i spoke about in my report. i started by just taking a few pictures as i noticed it around me. I think these are a very interesting start and have a lot of potential, i decided to play around with the editing a bit by cropping them, changing the contrast and making them black and white. i like this image and i think composition wise it works. i also think it looks good in black and white as it has gotten rid of the chance of clashing colours and sets a different kind of mood. The subject is in focus and it looks quite sharp. I cropped it a little and changed the contrast and exposure. i prefer this image to the top one as i like the spacing between the feet compared to the first one i think it is more visually pleasing, i also rotated this image just as an experiment. ...

Art wolfe - My world, my view.

Another photographer i decided to look at is called Art Wolfe. Wolfe's work is a combination of Art and journalism, he graduated from the University of Washington with Bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and art education in 1975, since then he has worked on every continent, in hundreds of locations, and on a range of different projects. I started by looking into Wolfe's technique, i found a lot of information on the type of camera he uses (Canon’s 5DS R) and the lenses he uses - "Mostly “L” series lenses, Canon’s professional designation, the 16-35 f/2.8 L II and the 70-200 f/4 L IS. He uses extension tubes for macro work with the 70-200 and adds 1.4x extenders. But i wanted to look into his editing techniques not his equipment, although interesting and worth putting on here for future reference. I found out Wolfe uses "Photo manipulation" in some of his photographs. Although his photographs are not heavily edited, he uses techniques like cloning the animal...

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