Conceptualizing your skull as a church.
These are interesting experiences which can illuminate the process of video making for us today.
If we address the existence within our own experience and the inescapability from it, we can conceptualize the importance of video making.
The expression of viewing within the current understanding of vision then becomes our responsibility.
How do we understand sight in 2014?
Our eyes have mechanical and biological function, but what we see is increasingly fragmented, fast paced, overlapped, moving and impermanent.
We have made attempts in portraying 3-D vision, but how can we expand that cinematic experience to be as immersive as the visual experiences we are accustomed to?
The present solution I have found over the break in movie making are:
"Blue is the Warmest Color" - Abdellatif Kechiche
"Nymph()maniac" - Lars Van Trier
Although these are prime examples of creativity, they are not the "video art" that we have been taught to acknowledge. (they are cinematic, highly acknowledged, you sit, you stare, you leave. These are films. Emotionally captivating, but not-so-much physically (aside from sexually). I watched them on my laptop-- how can we address this mode of viewing?)
Perhaps the solution to expressing the contemporary self requires a more immersive experience of the moving image.
The viewer must acknowledge their presence within the space to fully experience it.
As per the reading suggests, there's an awareness required to not be overly "solid" and leave breathing room for the viewer.
perhaps a closer answer is this:
https://vimeo.com/56893066 << "High Maintenance" (hilarious vimeo youtube series)
Even still, we are vieweing on-screen. Where else can we go?
I'd give examples, but it's spring break, so make them yourself!
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