User:Niek Hilkmann/Self Directed Research - Trimester 2
Physical VHS Montage
During the previous trimester I put together a VHS animation workshop in which participants were taught how to animate by cutting and pasting physical VHS tape: http://www.worm.org/home/view/event/6082 At the time I did not put too much emphasis on this in relation to my overall artistic practice, but I figured that this project had much more potential than a mere workshop could contain. The physical act of tape cutting allows for a different kind of montage that escapes those of classical cinema. Noise can become an integrated and esthetic part of the film montage. I am currently examining the potential of these parts and new creative cuts besides the horizontal and the vertical and putting together a script and sequence of material to work with in this process.