Documentation Mihail

NOTES

26 FEB: Mihail seems to have landed with his idea for his graduation. The starting point of his project is a script which leads him in making a video of found footage. The script will probably be generated by Twitter. The tweets of an account (or multiple accounts) will give the content for his video. For example when there is a tweet saying 'having eggs early in the morning', the video will show footage of people having eggs in the morning. Mihail finds these videos through Youtube. Mihail wants to make (if I'm correct) a video which fully covers a day (from morning to evening).

12 MARCH: Instead of making a video out of found videos (mash-up) from lets say Youtube, Mihail now is thinking of using the tweets as a guide to shoot the footage by himself (control). Next to that Mihail is thinking of using several twitter-accounts for several videos. He is thinking of 3-5 accounts/videos of maximum 5 minutes. Preferable Mihail will use accounts which vary between each other with some having very concrete tweets while others are vague. This give much space to interpretation by Mihail. To present this work Mihail is thinking of using multiple screens/tv's.

24 APRIL: Twitter messages with a mundane coverage; weather, work, going home. Mihail is making a video where he shows the traveling from going to work to home, a 24-hour stream. The video is shot in slow-motion and different people read out loud the tweets Mihail collected about the topics he chose.

In the final presentation Mihail wants to show the video with a beamer on the wall. The sound is coming from 4 speakers and is coming from different angles.

TO DOCUMENT: My idea for documenting Mihail is to audio interview him. Asking him about the underlying ideas for his project with the focus on the medium of his chose, Twitter, and the topic of the messages Mundane. After the interview I want to edit it to a more structured interview, where I select certain parts of the interview. Basically, I want to transform the interview into a structured script. Then I want to ask him (or others) to do an audio performance where we read out loud the script (or structured interview) in a natural way. At the graduation show I want to present the audio interview as the documentation of his work either by headphones or through (multiple) speakers (like he might be doing for his own presentation). I would like to maybe link his work and my audio interview in the presentation. So that people can hear our interview and watch the video (with or without sound?). Considerations: Timing and length of the final piece.

Do something with/about mundane.

What is mundane? (according to Mihail)

How does Mihail collect the tweets, how does he select?

Do the tweets mean something individually to him?

Why twitter? What do you think of twitter?

How did you come up with the idea?

why did you choose to make a movie?

Why did you choose transportation as a carrier?

Question: is there a possibility to implement certain ideas of the original proposals? (Building a portrait/sculpture).

NOTES: His project reminds me of:

• It chooses you - Miranda July - book based on meeting with a guy on PennySaver (commodity market) and is the starting point for her movie The Future.
• Cliches - Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion - spoken fixed script, changing images.
• Stories of Mister Wood - Vanessa van Dam & Martine Stigt - fixed script, executed in two different cities.
• Body Scan - Erica Scourti See also: [1].
• Puck verkade - The way she use and show video as installations.

Can I make my/a own project out of it? - question for Annet ----> NO