Time Goes By
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009To me time moving slowly is embodied in boredom, which is what I hoped to portray here. I altered the sound to give the effect of time becoming slower and slower as boredom becomes more and more extreme.
Assignment #4: Other- A Path’s Decontstruction
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009This last video was an attempt at disrupting a single outing of shooting. While originally I had combined some of the clips with other footage I cut out some of it, while it was formally exciting in order to construct a piece that was from one single filming. By disrupting the events but maintaing a sense of opening and closure through the signification of the pinball machine’s signboard, I felt the video really played with the process of deconstructing the video.
Time moving quickly: Trapped
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009This film which depicts time moving quickly has some of the longest takes in all of my projects. I wanted to do this because time can move quickly, and even appear to do so without having to be expressed through fast motion. I wanted to make a fairly formal piece in which standard conventions were used to express a simple but personal narrative. The idea of being in the library attempting at all costs to finish a reading when time seems to be working against you. I used the technique of point-of-view eye-line match, which was quite difficult because I worked alone and therefore had to finalize it through an illusory process via editing. Another convention of dominant cinema I used was the internal voice-over narration which I felt added to the urgency of the piece.
Time moving slowly: Workers in their factory
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009This film was heavily inspired by Soviet montage and at the narrative level appears to do so as well. Though the film with a political message may lead to a sense of being overdetermined I felt it worked well with the concept of time moving or appearing to move slowly. As workers hammer away at the their factory work they are driven by the dull monotonous tones of the hammer. Their work is abstracted labor power which leads to the production of capital for the owner-capitalist. I used the point of white and black pawns to represent this because it also shows how race has been used as a tool of working class division. The video acts both as a representation of where time moves slowly and as a commentary on the slow process of radicalization and perhaps current failure of revolution.
A Slow Walk
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009This piece conveys motion and the slow rhythm of foot steps.
Speeding Cars
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Speed abstracts form and highlights the motion and color of speeding cars in this piece.
Swing
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009In this video, I want the viewer to feel the motion of a swing. I want to highlight the way ones perspective is altered as they move in the rhythmic, swinging motion through the air.