User:Emily/Self-directed Research 02

Aims for today

• refine the descriptions of recent works
• reorganise and restructure
• the result would be -->making a new (old one is here) self-directed research page (contains descriptions of my works and abstracts of my pervious notes)

Description of recent works: what+how+why structure (#broad context#)

Reversed Shots(my dyslexia also reflects in being bad at naming works), is a split screen video projection. It extracts the audiovisual content from the most dramatic segment of Roman Polanski’s film The Tenant. The original scene is been juxtaposed along with its reversed each single shot. The beginning and the end of each shot is been viewed at the same time, synchronously and continuously playing to the middle from one shot to the next. It is a experiment on how visual art and cinematic experience affect on each other. The artistic approach combined with cinematic language (here mainly adressed on the moving camera, spatial movement) add up to the tensive watching experience.

In this work, she experinments the ability of artistic approach (visual arts) to frame the spectator’s experience of cinema. This reversing method affects the viewer’s sense of time. In general she persues a personal use of these cinematic material and apply them as artistic media.

Here are some materials to remind myself:

Shot reverse shot + environment shot --> a work that I viewed in Piankothek der Moderne, check information later

Omer Fast - The Casting (front and back)

The Threepenny Opera (1931 film) from the English Film Institue

About lone take

1.more realistic?? Look at André Bazin's work; long take shows a certain respect towards how time and space exist and appear to exist in reality (a fixed relationship to reality-->the possibility to reenact the movements and events --> a kind of sculpture through time and space)

e.g. Hitchcock's Psycho as a shot by shot reconstruction --> studying the shot composition and going back in reenacting it in at least a chronological sense VS Sergei Eisenstein's Odessa steps scene from Battleship Potempkin (impossible to replay in reality); But can adapt Battleship sequence very readily in another film --> Brain De Palma's The Untaouchables(1987)

2.demands more participant from audience --> have to pay more attention to it in order to understand what's happening in it. Mutilple narrations --> be constantly aware of multiple dimensions all at once. Metacognition --> not only thinking about film but starting to think about how we think about film. Multi-layered sensibility to accumulate inside a film

e.g. Reservoir Dogs(1992)

3.Long take has greater depth in terms of composition --> another way that the long take resembles reality --> what's going on can always be interpreted in more ways than one which is the way reality works.

Photobook,

Videogrep the repetition

Movie Dialogue

Reorginze pervious notes

Visual Art + Cinema Experience

Permutation + Database Aesthetics

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