cassavetes 1

The artist who I admire the most and influences whatever I do is John Cassavetes because I can't post his movies here I decided to start posting some of the things he says in discussion with Ray Carney.
"Stanley's (Kubrick) a genius! While I'm a bum from Port Washington who grew up on the Long Island railroad. Metro built a great big moon for him, but when I want a moon, I go outside and shoot what's up in the sky! I'm not really interested in the moon or any heights that are beyond my scope. What I am interested wildly in are questions like is a person really crazy for thinking differently? Is there such a thing as love? Where do children fit in? I would like to be part of our society in making films and address ourselves to the audience that we think has been neglected that is still interested in the human things, human beings and what they feel and what they striving for. We try to make films that people who still believe in the human spirit are able to get something out of."

for my fellow students:
visual communication is not only about the visual, is also about the communication
It is not only how you say it, but also what you say

man in walsall

tomorrow I'm going to reedit this video with the man in Walsall and also the elevator one but it needs to be done at university because i realized today that my pc is not as powerful as it needs to be in order to redder it

lady

this is a still from a video I'm editing now
a video on the smooth and elegant movement of a heavy lady with shiny shoes
I shot it on victoria square

snow and schedule

I make a schedule here about things that need to be done before April the 4th
1) choose videos I may include
2) edit the videos I m thinking of including
3) make a video composition
4) try different exporting options
5) make a trial projection (before Annet leaves for Easter-maybe this Friday)
6) start writing my statement
and also
7) continue my research on works of video-art (examples of works/texts by interesting artists)
8) continue reading theory about moving image and our perception of time
9) continue shooting


the above images are stills from 4 short videos I shot a snowy day in Manchester
I want to combine them in a composition to play all simultaneously
and maybe then include this composition in my bigger-final one

general idea on what i am working on for June/07

I'm working on a series of short videos that I'm shooting mainly around Birmingham/UK.
What I shoot is not planed in advance I just walk around and point my camera where I see something reflecting my concerns:
The passing of time/ growing old/ death
The possibility of retaining individuality in a world that promotes homogeneity/choices /norms/compromise/artificiality/

The videos:
are static
some times the running-speed has been manipulated in editing
are loops
are silent
more like moving photographs/time records/...
are not about Birmingham
are not about living in Birmingham
are about me as they are about everybody else

The presentation:
I will compose some (8-10-?) of this videos side by side for a single wall projection as I would have done with photographs on a wall. All will be looping, some will be bigger than others. Ideally I would project in all 4 walls of a single room, but I don't plan this for now.

video-art-cinema

Unfortunately works of video-art as well as works of art-cinema are not easy to find
but here are some places to find some work
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/index.html
http://www.ubu.com/

please let me know if you discover any other website about video-art and experimental videos

francis alys

francis alys is an artist who walks around cities, observing and interacting with the experience of the place
his work is about every day habits about repetition and rituals/every of his work that I've seen is also a visualization of the passing of time

his work is currently included in an exhibition in London: http://www.parasol-unit.org/current.htm
if you want to know more go to:
http://www.postmedia.net/alys/alys.htm