Astridvan Nimwegen trimester4 2nd year

Visual overview Work in Progress trimester 4

Try-outs Different ways to view my work:

Projection in a film theater:

Projection in a landscape:

Series of Garage-door Videos

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Research Bird Spotting Houses:

Experiments on Framing/Staging

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The difference in these photos is that the left one is just a tractor in a field and the right one becomes a tractor on a stage due to the framing.

Graduation proposal

Astrid Graduation proposal

Keywords

• Single fixed wide shots
• Time
• Landscape
• Light
• Humans
• Vulnerability
• Contradiction
• Absurdism
• The drama is in the staging itself
• Strict constraints
• Performance
• Ordinary life / the everyday
• Descriptions
• Surrealistic
• Make the complex simple
• Meaning of existence
• Awareness / conciousness
• Truth
• Literal
• Perception
• Circle
• Physical
• Psychological
• Documentary
• Film

Context/Other works

• [1]

(Bas Jan Ader – Nightfall)

• [2]

(Marina Abramovic – Confession)

• [3]

(Photo’s ‘Confession’)

• [4]

(Roy Andersson – Songs from the second floor)

• [5]

(Peter Greenaway – Drowning by numbers)

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(Allan Kaprow's book - Essays on the blurring of Art and Life) http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520240797

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(Tarkovsky's book - Sculpting in time) http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/sculpting_in_time_tarkovsky_the_great_russian_filmaker_discusse.html