Annotations from Aitana to Ieva and Yalou
IEVA'S PIECE
What?
Yalou says the first she saw was a flower and a flower, how it blooms, the music reminds her of constantly that the time goes, things are going, changing, movement. Ieva: assignment about time that you had to do, time that goes faster and slower, and she was thinking about internal time, when things go faster or slower. Blooming artificially and non artificially. A video about internal time.
How?
She had three different process, blooming and dying. Stop motion opening a flower, the second one boiling a flower and the third one just an opening flower. edited in double exposure mostly stop motion, collage and photoshop. Picture>Photoshop + AfterEffects> Eyemovie For the blooming itself 20 or 50 images, together may be around 100.
Why?
She didn't know how to represent time. Flowers have this real timeline, and clear to simbolise with the process. She also watches videos of nature. Time would be involved more time in the project that way.
Why did you choose animation?
She couldn't think of anything and usually when that happens she overcomplicates. She sees the difficulties of working with camera and sets.
(A) May be you feel more connected with paintings and still images?
Video made out of pictures, so she find that cool to capture movement and there is a strange time of movement. She always starts experimenting but doesn't have a clear vision of what she wants to achieve. Music through "Ableton". Check certain tones and notes.
What came before?
Before this project she was making more abstract animations, making them with music to get synchronic audiovisuals but more in an abstract. Yalou comes back to the choice of music, Ieva says that she is inspired by Nicholas Jaar, because he makes music with interesting sounds which seems more landscapes having different textures visually, when a glass is broken you can visualise the kind of texture. So she was trying to make more sound music herself and she puts cords in there, "oh, the four cords are used in all the pop songs". Yalou says that she uses the basic to develop further.
What will follow?
There's a relation about the theme: she is struggling with internal problems and subconscious problem. So it relates in the content but also in the formal aspects: audiovisuals by animations with music, which she thinks there are some meaning behind.
What would you change
The proportions (aspect rate) in some places and also she feels messy that the frame had a wide line out there. Also work to be cleaner and focus on the details.
What are its limits?
She doest know the context of the question. The limits are not that easy to understand if you don't know what is it about? It doesn't have a clear narrative and it is mostly made by one technique.
How could it be translated?
She doesn't know... but thinking about showing the video for an exhibition.. It could be translated into a book, with more pages with smaller frames and happier one could just be more faster and clear. The idea becomes very repetitive so it could be translated into a repetitive kind of piece.
Yalou's piece
What?
Ieva says it is a child in an art class painting a tiger, the facts. It is rough footage. This project is for te Eye, about her curiosity about God and religion, and she thought that the God was the sun. She is interested in how children how humanised God. (Ieva) when you see children is kind a feeling of innocence, and specially with the children drawing and painting it is very pure and raw, they don't have the anxiety, they are not overthinking, so it is very beautiful and it works thinking about God. With adults you feel that they are defending what they think, and with children there is no violence in there, just honesty, they give everything.
How?
She really wants to experience religion, there are a lot of negative opinions in religion and there is a big truth about that, she thinks you cannot judge religion if you didn't try the religion. You cannot say anything related with the "J" or goodness. (I) are they very religious? they do have an organ, but they are very open, so the younger child is 4 years old, but her mother says that it is ok if he is not believing in God. She went there on Thursday (this church), she shows us the music performing in the church (pop music). No one really talks about it but the christian church is trying to connect the youth to make it live. The kids in the video says for example "tits" or "vagina". She met other families who believe in God and they even asked if she wanted to be baptised. (I) SO do you want to be religious or you just want to see how people live with religioun? She needs to really experience to truly understand it, so in journalism she thinks that they don't do it at all, but you have to open it up to understand it. She is open to do that, she is trying to experience religion without any judgment. (I) How do you find these families? Is the sister in law (her brother's girlfriend). She has always been judging religion and she feels religion only can be judged if you experience it. Talking about the Bible and New Testament, who wrote it? Ieva is angry about it. (I) Do you live with them? No, just they text me when they are going to church.
Choices?
Not to put their faces in the footage, it was about their story, she wanted to focus on the creation and how they see God, not on their faces.
What came before?
A discussion with her mum about religion. She was telling her experience with religion, and her boyfriend too (he is catholic, and she is not religious).
What will follow?
A personal journey with religion, she is not going to stop to stop with this project. Not stop with this experience, it also feels unfair, as it is a very personal passion of her, that she should give time to grow and shape.
Introvert-extrovert?
So, as a introvert-extrovert, I dove in an extrovert religion focusing on two extrovert Childs with an introvert mother.
What does it change?
It changes my vision on religion and it adds something to the people saying this video.
What are its limits?
It has millions of limits, definitely how people would interpret it and she doesn't care about, so it is about the receiver so it is very possible that it doesn't fit into their likeness.