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Final Presentation

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Week 10 Videos

Rabit Future Shorts Video is an animated short film. Starts out with a rabbit running away and a little girl chasing it with a knife because she wants to make muffs from its skin. For some reason, all the objects in the scene have their description on the top of it. Then as it goes on, the little boy waiting in the trees jumps down and kills the rabbit. Once the two kids cut up the rabbit a little demon comes out, but the description says “Idol”. The demon shoots a magical beam at a fly and the flies drop jewels. It is a metaphor for getting rich by killing animals. The kids then starts a business by killing every animal and harvesting vegetation nearby. A tiger appears and eats the demon, the little boy tries to shoot the tiger, but his gun turned into a clock, the tiger turned into a rabbit, the crown turned into a fish. All the jewels turned into bugs that then eats the two children. Moral of the story: stop wiping natural resources as there will be consequences.

Et Cetera (1966) – Jan Svankmajer A short Black and white film. Video starts out with a man walking into a room, but the next scene is another man kissing a woman, but then the next scene, it is another woman that he is kissing. Then sits down and the screen is split in half, then folded: as this is happening different women are in the folded sections. Then a horse shows up and its running, as it passes a train, there are different videos on each trailer (looks like different movies). Basically, recycled other movies to make a chase scene. I did not find it very appealing, to be honest, because the sound effects got annoying after a while and there was too much going on in each scene to actually know what is going on or what to focus on.

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Week 9 Videos

Lewis Klahr Lewis uses cutouts of comic art to make his art. He wanted to leave the verbal language in his art, but he also adds it in, kind of like a balance. He then shows us how adding minor tweaks onto scenes would add immense effects. Lewis has a collection of props that he uses to make his art, it consists of various 3d objects and 2d art. Pony Glass Lewis Klahr Stop-motion art with instrumental and old school vocal music. Images of two people in love, going about their daily lives. Romantic. Several scenes of love making but then he sees his lover talks to another man. Then his lover lied to him and goes out with another man. He goes to a fortune teller to seek answers, and scenes of his woman getting killed by the other man. The music becomes dramatic and grim during this. I think the main character dresses up as a woman? Then he sleeps with other men. This is all so confusing. There are certain parts where those old men that the main character slept with started to fight one another. Repeating images of a turtle keeps showing on screen, maybe it means identity crisis?

Altair Lewis Klahr Another stop-motion art with instrumental and old school vocal music. Scene of Western Union. Two people dancing, in love, getting married and as time goes on scene of Western Union keeps on coming back. Various cards show up, queen, king, ace, jack. Then a scene of a hand rubbing a genie, for a wish? Klahr uses collage animation to create a similar state in the viewer using surreal motion. The images have unlimited movement. The woman is from glamour images but are shown in ominous forms with hands being cut off by the wrist.

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Week 8 Videos

Robin Rhode pictures of graffiti art and people interacting with it. Bringing the art into reality perhaps. For example, man standing in a position that makes it look like he is going to drive the drawn bike on the wall, the meaning behind this is how he is in poverty and wishes that he has money to buy it. Or guy playing ping pong.  

Harrowdown Hill by Thom Yorke 2D picture of an eagle flapping its wings then it turns into a real eagle flying away, then the view switches to the view of the eagle. Buildings, houses, protests come into view, then hands come into view of building and manipulating the eagle. As the video progress, there are images of police fighting against citizens in the city. Then a man is shown underwater and looking at the viewer, and he just closes his eyes and drifts.

Iam (Not) van Gogh by David Russo Video starts out with narrators asking him some questions and he explains how he is not Van Gogh, and the narrators are saying that they don’t fund video art. And they ask David why they should fund him. The video is playing with David holding different portraits of a man running in the middle of a crowd. Video is sped up. He’s then shows him holding a fish swimming in the crowd, lost, lonely and full of problems as a symbol of hope – he’s worried about his culture. The convo then starts talking about how they don’t sponsor film productions. During all this David holds a disembodied mouth wondering in the crowd and moving as it talks. But David can’t explain what it’s saying.

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Obstruction 2: Reclaimed

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Week 7 Videos

Re-Animated: Arrival Video starts at 12,000 feet high up from earth, and it starts to countdown the distance to an island. You then reach Hawaii in the middle of the ocean. There’s a voiceover telling you all the information. The scenes look like they were made in a 3d software. Beautiful and well rendered. The voiceover starts being poetic and comparing humans descending like other animals, and how we view the same things as them. And how others that see the same views in earlier centuries. The speaker then starts talking about how people alters the island, and how it changes people. The year is now 1826, you meet Edwin Dwight, a newcomer speaks about new flying creature with translucent wings with a tiny bloodsucking beak: the mosquito. Dwight left but the mosquitoes stayed behind and spreads malaria. Fast forward to 1895, meeting the Rothchild, the collector of bird skin and eggs. The speaker then talks about how Walter Rothschild fuses with the bird and transferred his name to the body of the bird and then in 1987, the bird disappears, and in 2018, the same bird is preserved and displayed after being extinct. This video talks about how humans introduce species to different places and wiping out other indigenous species. I looked up the bird’s name, and it is called the Pseudonestor Rothschild.

We are opposite like that Video starts off with intense instrumental music using the organ and violin. It shows scenes of the ice melting and the narrator talks about how there is no more surface to stand on in the artic. Then it shows drawings from the 19th century of how the exact location looked like, filled with ice. There’s a lady dressed up as ice sheets showed up on screen, as the narrator reads a poetic description of what happens to the surrounding area. It was caused by the increasing temperature. It also shows images and comments that predicted the ice to encroach onto the London Bridge in a Journal in 1886. Powerful message. Another power scene was when there were an iPad and a monitor situated on the ocean with the icy mountains as a backdrop, and within the iPad and monitors were scenes of the mountain without any snow or ice on them.

An Artist Walks into a Bar Music stood out to me, it’s Latin pop? I’m not sure, but it sounds amazing. The video starts with a female walking into a bar, she has a kidney problem and doctor told her she can’t drink anymore. She talks about how being unable to drink because of being pregnant drives her insane, and that she’s going to make a video to pass the time. She then talks about her art project where she pushes a wall that then pushes empty beer bottles into the trash can – comparing it to her love life. She asked a good question: When does the body become an object? When her friend died, and they kept her friend’s body fresh with ice. Then she made a glass that looks like there’s whisky in it and talks about how finicky it is and how hard it is to objects with glass. You must find a rhythm? She said that when she makes things with glass in such an OCD way, but even so, she still has no control over it – and the objects tell their own story. She’s comparing how she has no control over her life with some of the creations of her spinning glass.

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Week 6 Videos

Copy Shop by Virgil Widrich Black and white film, old school style. About a man who made photocopies with his hand and one day he woke up there’s another copy of himself. Then the copy machine started making copies of pictures of him making the copies, and everything he is doing in real time. After some time, there are multiple copies of himself in the world and in his house, doing the same thing he is. Has beautiful symphonic violin music that changes tempo depending on the situation, and sound effects that go with the action within the frame. Virgil apparently made this film with 18,000 photocopies which are then animated and filmed. That is insane. Meshes of the Afternoon Black and white film. Eerie music, lots of trumpet? No sound effects. Woman walks in a house then she sees another lady walking outside, and she proceeded to chase after her, then she enters another house with a knife on the stairs. She walks up the stairs through the curtains and fines a phone, then she falls back. This is really confusing: she looks out the window again to see herself chasing the woman? The woman she chased finally showed its face: a mirror. Then she looks out the window yet again, this time she somehow got a knife in her hand that was a key prior. The three versions of herself sits at the table to what seems like a discussion of who used the knife to kill? The woman then turns into a man who’s holding the knife. Towards the end of the scene It appears to be the woman who was the person who killed herself. I’m not even sure at this point…

Stan Brakaage, “Mothlight” Film made from photographs. Pictures of moths, leaves with all one tone of color: purplish pinkish vintage hints of orange. There are also pictures of different types of flowers and plants, leaves, the ground, leaves started to decay and turned into tiny bits of leaves and particles. Things are scattered everywhere. At the end there were images of the moth’s feet and leaves that were still intact. My guess is that it’s someone’s interpretation of what a moth would see during its life time?

Stan Brakhage – Stellar Beautiful colored with what seems like watercolor images with a black background. He might have used light to beam it from the back of these images then took a picture of them. It’s most likely not actual images of space but the way he made, makes it seem like it is. The video also sped up as time goes on.

Simbiosis Carnal Animated film in hues of blue and red on a white background. Music is rhythmic. Shows different species procreating. Show flowers as the vaginal, then it becomes a key. The music changes. Then the woman’s vagina is locked after being married. Then she becomes the mother and got sick of being the mother, she feels like there’s a cage on it. At this point there are images of different professions being shown but she is locked in a cage, maybe by society? She tries to break free from this by studying to be an engineer of sorts but is being picked up by an outside force and dropped into a house yet again. She then meets a guy working at the bakery and they ran off together. At this point the couple are watching TV and they are getting injections of fillers; I presumed it’s to look better. Then the video just shows the couple having sex in different positions and turning into animals.

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Week 5 Videos Review

Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Soul Keepers Bill almost drowned as a child and all the art he creates involves water. Went from drawing to video art because the blue light reminded him of the images he saw when he was drowning. Viola once felt that home videos should be kept separate to his artwork, but the sorrow of his mother's death, and the difficulty of understanding this transition from life to "disappearance", slowly changed his point of view. He realized that things could not be kept separate. Viola now sees the cameras as keepers of the soul, he explains. The medium holds onto life, a kind of understanding of feelings, keeping them alive. Pipilotti Rist: We get used fast to constraints This video is Rist talking about how we get used to a certain thing and just know that one thing. She’s asking her viewers to break out of the constraints and limitations. The point, in my opinion, is that to not keep thinking or doing things as they were taught or made, and to think outside the box, or view things in circles or triangles instead of the square videos that we’re all so used to. She showcased this idea through making a chandelier light out of underwear, showing videos in circle shapes, irregular shapes, non-horizontal videos.

Pipilotti Rist Interview at ACCA, I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase The most important thing I got from this video is how she talks about the camera strips the color of what we see with our eyes. And so, she manipulated the video to what she saw with her eyes. I thought this was an excellent point. Also, when she said, “Don’t ever irritate on a technical basis, but more on a symbolic content, let your creation ‘breathe’”. When an artist spends time to make certain things fit just right in their work, it makes the viewer feel like they belong – I don’t quite get this on a logical level, but subconsciously, I feel like this is true. “If you put 100 hours in this 1 minute, then the person seeing this will get 100 hours out of it.” Just wow.

Paul Pfeiffer SEGMENT:  in "Time"

What stood out to me was the wooden stairs that seems to stretch out into space faster than it looks, It’s a beautiful piece of art as it tells the long and arduous journey of Booker T. Washington’s life’s goal: liberating black people from prejudice and racism. I also resonated with, “I’ve learned that there’s a lot of know-how out there that are nice to collaborate with and use, what I have learned is that I need to let go some of the control that I felt I had to every single aspect of it, because sometimes, other people’s input can open up your thinking to possibilities that you can’t even think of” because on my obstructions and videos, I ask people to critique it before turning it in, and they can spot some of things that I might’ve missed and I’m so grateful for it.

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Obstruction 1

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Observing Through Window

These 4 foggy panes are in my peripherals from the moment I walk downstairs to my working desk until it’s time to rest. I’ve never paid mind to them as my eyes are centered in this pixelated and moving pane, hoping for a different, better view one day. My current view is nothing extraordinary, just the back of other generic, squared brick homes with darkened wooded fence like mine, as well as some trees, bushes and powerlines that used to have pairs of Jordan’s on them. Are there others like me in this neighborhood observing this and doing the same as I? There are three connected sidewalks that one can traverse through and from, but one is used more than the others. Like the old tenants of this neighborhood, most rather walk the dark path of life until they are never seen again. Fifteen years but not a single familiar face that reappears.

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Week 4 Videos

Voice Over: This short film is fantastic in that it pulls you in with extreme drama for each of the different scenes, then at the end it’s just a kiss. They did this with the usage of voice overs. The over all meaning of the work is to show that breathe, relax, its just a kiss you’ll be fine. The music and sound effects were also exquisite as well as the voice over, they all fit well together and were in-sync.

 Gunfighter: This comedic short film transcends the voice over onto the actors. They can hear and replies to the narrator. It’s a light-heart film that adds a unique and refreshing spin on the narrator. Camera work zoomed in on the speakers face and portrayed the emotions thoroughly. The actors body language was also fitting as they pointed their guns. Wanderers: The main idea of this work explains the inherent desires of people to explore unknown territories. The author shows this via voice over and moving images of humans in outer-space and galaxies. The sound works well with the images as it was very atmospheric, it gave me the sense of vastness, of which, was very fitting to the short film.

 Luis | Future Shorts In this short film, it portrays a little boy who wanted to become a deer, “clothed in animal skin and eyes that were transparent”. The initial scene of the film showed a deer and as it goes on there was a scene where the boy jumps into fire and killing himself. After this, I think he became the deer that can move objects by just thinking about it. The room looks like it’s made out of real materials. The color palette is light brown to dark brown. The movement is very erratic and eerie.

 Maybe One Day This video talks about his daily routine. It is pensive as he counts every minute, steps, and ounces it takes for him to do things. He talks about his desire to be at the top in his career when he’s 70 but then realizes that no one cares, so then he just went to places that he always wanted to go. The meaning behind this video is to live your life to it’s fullest, experience things you want and not waste your life with ambitions. Losers Video shows teenagers and kids failing that things, they showed them getting bullied by other kids. Then at the end it shows a girl crying to show the effects of bullying. The last message showed that the bullies are the real losers.

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Reading 3

The Close-Up  Mary Ann Doane

·        wave carries them away. Crescendo. A muscle bridles. The lip is laced with tics like a theater curtain. Everything is movement, imbalance, crisis. Crack.

·        The description verges on the obscene, perhaps because it transforms the face, usually reserved as the very locus of subjectivity, into a series of harsh and alien objects (a geographical site, a wave, a theater curtain, a piece of fruit, a keyboard). The excessiveness of Epstein's language is consistent with the inescapably hyperbolic nature of the close-up. 

·        The close-up has inspired fascination, love, horror, empathy, pain, unease. It has been seen as the vehicle of the star, the privileged receptacle of affect, of passion, the guarantee of the cinema's status as a universal language, one of, if not the most recognizable units of cinematic discourse, yet simultaneously extraordinarily difficult to define

·        In his discussion of capitalism, the commodity, and the mechanically reproduced image, Benjamin delineates the defining desire of the masses in a capitalist society as a desire for a closeness that is also a leveling of difference, a desire, in effect, for the close-up.

·        Although Garbo's face here seems to constitute a veritable zero degree of expression, its blankness nevertheless is forced into legibility by the pressure of the narrative culminating in that moment.

·        Today, the gigantic screens of IMAX theaters work to reassert, to reconfirm, that possibility of absorption, which has played such an important role in the history of cinema. In other words, it seems necessary today to exaggerate, to hyperbolize the cinema in order to be assured that it works. Yet, the possibility of its failure is also allayed by the proliferation of miniature screens, so that it could be said that the screen is not simply enormous, it is everywhere. The inevitable limit to its magnitude is compensated for by its proliferation. Focusing on the close-up, the discourse of photogénie unconsciously elaborated the way in which detail and enormity, miniature and gigantic, are inextricable in the cinema. It is the cinema, understood in this way, that laid the groundwork for a future cultural logic of the screen.

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Week 3 Videos

Window by Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway became interested in the political stories coming from South Africa at the time of apartheid, particularly the frequency at which political prisoners were dying by jumping through windows. He made metaphors and turned the situation into a mocking documentary. He used a house to replicate the jails. The color and texture are kind grainy, there are sunlight but most of it is cast shadow and bleak. The music is rhythmic and almost comical. The camera is in the same angle for each shot: looking out the window to show how ridiculous it is to accidentally kill oneself this way.

Lost Book Found by Jem Cohen This video documents New York city’s crowd who were isolated. People who were forgotten or uses drugs. He termed it “Flaner”: someone who is forgotten. And a flaner break the isolation feeling with his private concerns by filling the hollow space created within him by such isolation through isolating strangers. He watches them from a distance. The video reflects a free capitalism from a Marxism perspective. It talks about how when there are too many people that they feel less empathy towards one another because everyone is just a number. People are just commerce, a simple change of goods and services.

La Jetee by Chris Marker

A 1962 French science fiction made from mostly still, black, and white phots. It is a story about a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film’s dialogue were completely narrated by one person and there were also German people muttering in parts of the movie. It felt intense and eerie because Mark used many cut-ins and fade-outs. The soundtrack is rhythmic, and had some sound effects that adds movement to the movie.

Ilha Das Flores (1989) This is a documentary about humans and how it relates to other species on earth. It also talks about how money was made and the workings of economy. Everything can be exchanged for money. This documentary feels like it could be used to teach an alien from outer space about humanity and how to go about their day. The narrator kept on iterating the fact that humans have opposable thumbs, complex brain and money and why having these things gave them control over other less fortunate species, like pigs. But towards the end it showed other humans who also have these things ate food that were deemed not good enough for pigs because they don’t have money.

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Week 3 Reading  Notes

About a Clueless Boy and Girl

·        In her culturally-focused examination of voice-overs in Chris Eyre’s Skins (2002), Laura Beadling argues that the film’s various voice-overs reject not only the existence of a singular authoritative voice, but the possibility of such a conclusive vantage point in the American representations of Native people and stories, both in the cinema and the culture.

·        voice-over has become—to varying degrees, and for different purposes—a staple element of contempo - rary romantic comedies

·        To figure out why, we must think carefully about this genre’s mixture of romance and comedy and how these films have changed alongside changing social mores. Moreover, we need to consider the two advantages of using this narrative technique: providing us unique opportunities for intimacy because of its ability in offering insight into characters’ minds, and creating irony through the clash of verbal comments with the visual track

·        The scripts of conventional romantic comedies cosset the leading man and starring woman with friends and confidantes so that they can discuss their initial hatred of, or growing attraction to, the person they’ve met.

·        In their most classic form, the filmmakers focus first on one side of the couple, then on the other. This creates a characteristic structure that Rick Alt - man, regarding musicals, terms “dual focus”

·        Thematic issues motivate this narrative structure. As we gain more knowledge about each character, we understand that each is missing what the other person can provide

·        Dual focus romantic comedies, where the storyline and camera switch from one person to another, automatically imply an all-knowing viewpoint, order, and inevitability. The viewers realize that these two beautiful stars belong together, and the narrative structure, in its even-handed portrayal of the complementary opposites, yin and yang, shows us that they will (eventually) fit together to make the complete Taiji circle. This fatedness and comfort pertains even to multiple storyline romantic comedies such as Love Actually; although some of the individual romances don’t work out, the narration’s wide range of knowledge is itself comforting—someone/something has The Big Perspective. Single focus romantic comedies, on the other hand, make viewers more anxious; in a way, these films bring us back to film noir. Like the protagonist we follow, we can’t be sure what is going to happen or when. If lives are not at stake, hearts are.

What Does God Hear?

·        instead of one voice, we hear multiple perspectives; rather than addressing and often complicating the narrative, the voice-overs contribute to our understanding of the inner state of the characters; and these voice-overs generally speak from a “timeless present,” not from sometime in the future

·        Malick’s purpose for the voice-over is to undercut the narrative continuity and demonstrate its lack of omniscience, thus he must quickly “de-acousmatize” the voice. “De-acousmatization,” Chion explains, “results from finally showing the person speaking…at that point the voice loses its virginal-acousmatic powers, and re-enters the realm of human beings”

·        our attempts to make sense of an incoherent narrative forces us to engage with the voice-overs.

 Native American Filmmakers Reclaiming Voices

·        While each of these “invisible storytellers” will be discussed in more detail below, their sheer multiplicity ensures that none can occupy an unquestioned position of authority that most voice-over narrators are said to occupy by their very nature. By quickly switching narrators in the first few minutes of the film, Eyre implies that none are in possession of the only true story.

·        As a Native filmmaker, Eyre depicts the history of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee in ways that contradict triumphalist American narratives of Manifest Destiny and the “winning of the West.” Instead of a white-washed version, Eyre revises American history commemorated in national monuments such as Mt. Rushmore, where he sets the cli - max of his film, to prioritize a Native perspective

·        Eyre also decenter the Western genre, which often mythologizes the histories of the “Old West” and presents Native peoples to mainstream audiences as without history or culture.

·        “rule of synchronous sound,” which dictates that the match between the human body and the human voice must appear seamless and thus result in “the representation of a homogeneous thinking subjects whose exteriority is congruent with its interiority”

 The Voice-Over as an Integrating Tool of Word and Image

·        Due to the general unfamiliarity of the Western audience and scholarship with Asian languages, from their point of view Asian films may be perceived to be more visual than aural.

·        The sense that voice-over in Asian cinema is some - what muted can be also due to a Western standpoint that tries to apply its own general principles of narratology and “the language of cinema” to various artistic representations, which might have in fact been derived from more local concepts and traditions.

·        Given the cultural tendency that words and images flow out of the same source, Chinese films may, in fact, have an inherent signifying linguistic system of their own

·        Sarah Kozloff reminds us that “the dominant tradition of Western culture has tended towards iconophobia,” and that “the stridency of the pro-image film scholars may be a defense against this dominant tradition, a quasi-conscious revolt against the traditional favoring of the abstract, intellectual word”

·        By employing the techniques of fu (exposition), bi (contrast or metaphor), and xing (evocation, but sometimes also translated to mean metonymy), Chinese poets engender an effortless melding of words and images.

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Reading 1 Notes

Video Art

·        The genre known as video art, is a new type of contemporary art and a medium of expression commonly seen in Installations, but also as a stand-alone art form

·        Video art typically appears in two basic varieties: single-channel and installation. In single-channel works, a video is screened, projected, or shown as a single series of images.

·        In visual art, Video differs from film (including avant garde cinema) in its disregard for the conventions of traditional movie-making.

·        The German Happenings artist Wolf Vostell (1932-98), inventor of decollages was the first to include working television sets in his 1959 assemblage 'Deutscher Ausblick'

·        Andy Warhol produced a number of video films now regarded as part of the genre. Representative sample of his works include: 'Sleep' (1963), depicting the 6-hour slumber of the poet John Giorno; 'Empire' (1964), an 8-hour film of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk; and 'Eat', a 45-minute film showing a man eating mushrooms.

·        The sculptor Joan Jonas (b.1936) was an early exponent of video and performance art, who began filming in natural and industrial environments and progressed to groundbreaking Performance video.

·        Bill Viola (b.1951), a graduate of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, has established himself as one of the world's most celebrated video artists.

 Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art

·        This emerging and very politicized generation began to emphasize critical ideas and means of production that could be used to develop a new and more inclusive society, alternative institutions and accessible types of cultural production that reflected their social values.

·        Radical theorists such as Herbert Marcuse proposed that mass media had direct relationships to social control and created a “one-dimensional man” who lived in a bland world of conformity and had become too comfortable to engage in ideas that critiqued or opposed mainstream society in any way that could lead to meaningful social change

·        A change in one’s personal consciousness was seen as the starting point on the path to creating a new and better society.

·        The concept took several other forms besides political awareness and activism during this period, including using drugs, free love, music, and mastering Eastern philosophical and disciplinary practices, such as yoga and meditation. All were efforts to create mind-altering states of consciousness to create a new, more enlightened self.

·        Newton R. Minow, Chairman of the FCC, had expressed concerns over the negative effects of formula based television programming when he described television as “a vast wasteland.” The issue was how representations on television not only created a market for products but also created social acceptance and rejection through conformity.

·        This vision imagined that electronic communications were an extension of the human nervous system and operated in a binary kind of progression—as technology advances, so does the human sensory perception needed to receive it.

·        Video art has achieved its greatest success when it parallels and articulates ideas coming out of contemporary cultural, art, and political movements. Whether it is AIDS activism, feminism, anti-war sentiments, racism, global trade, or other emerging issues, video is a medium engaged in questioning, stirring up, provoking, engaging, educating, inventing, informing, and articulating new ideas

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Pipilotti Rist Interview: Freeing the Wonderlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjmmAzS63H8&ab_channel=LouisianaChannel

Pipilotti Rist is a genius. Her art portrays deep issues that exists within each and everyone of us and has interesting ways to convey the messages. She tries to help people free themselves from these issues by illuminating the issue. For instance, her work: "Open my Glade Almond Listening" shows a lady behind a clear glass rubbing her face against the glass with make up and and smearing it all over the glass. Her explanation is that we all wear masks to try to be someone we're not and that the 'self' just want's to break out of this 'mask'.

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Photocopy Chacha

https://player.vimeo.com/video/11252439

This video has many photocopies of people's faces, bodies juxtaposing and creating sort of a movement. The faces also move insyncly with the music. The medium are colored photographs in desaturated vintage purple, blue, red or green. The textures are grainy and dark. The music used is phenomenial as it was rhythmic, dancy and somewhat happy even though it has an eerie message. The music created a nice balance of to the art because it's kind of happy and light, while the photos used are dark and eerie.