"J'interroge et j'invective", poéme de François Dufrene
Lemaitre-Maurice Le-film-est-deja-commence (1951)
Collage / Found footage film in early stage is always about criticizing social issues and making poems. They are a bit rough as using films to overlap each other, but powerful.
Norman McLaren : Synchromy
Spook Sport 1940 - Norman McLaren
We See the Future - Wm S Burroughs
William S. Burroughs: An Animated Portrait
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Revolutionary Weapon
Hans Richter - Rhytmus 21
Some are like VJing, very rhythmatic. I like this style more
I encountered this film when I was doing the presentation of SM1008. I am really surprise that a film can be so many variation in visual, and it plays the time concept in a very unique way. Time in Run Lola Run is very important, time gives the movie power and tension in making every decisions.
In the movie, the editing is very good! Slot machine editing was the first time used in this movie, which is a experimental method in editing. Animation, montage, still images, MV style, many features are included in the film but you won't feel odd. And the idea that making a film like a game is attractive. The 2 media seems that are hard to combined, however, it is very success in Run Lola Run. This film can said to be a breakthrough in traditional film industry, redefining the way of producing narrative.
Thinking and Drawing - Japanese Art Animation of the New Millenium
Thinking and Drawing features a wide selection of animation styles from line drawing to CGI manipulated photographs. The subject matter ranges from feminist allegory to ghostly tales. Although each film has a short running time of between 5 and 17 minutes, the depth of meaning in each is truly astonishing. The films have shown together and separately at festivals in Europe, North America, and Australia.
I think this is a kind of experimental animation. Many of them do not have a clear narration but more focus on some psychological and philosophical issues, questioning how animation can be and something else... For example, one of my favourite work is Suwami Nogami's minimalistic line drawing piece, Imagination Practice (Kangaeru Renshu, 2003). The animation is looping and looping seems without an end.A man is sitting in front of a window with a self-portrait, just the same as the cover of that DVD. The window frame and the blue sky filled with moving clouds are in colour, but the figure of the artist is not coloured in. It gives us a feel that the process of thinking is a loop, you need to question yourself, get an answer, and question your answer, and so on. Besides, it shows that the relationship between artist and his/her work is very strong, artists need to think over and over about their work.
My another favourite work is Tetsuji Kurashige's nightmarish U-SA-GUI (2002) begins by citing a section from Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste, in which the renowned French epicure suggests that stimulating foods, meats in particular, can have an influence on one's dreams. The film depicts a macabre game played by two rabbits and a blindfolded woman. It is quite weird for me as I don't really know about the physiology of taste, but I can sense what it wants to express through the development of story. The style of animation is very special. It likes an oil painting but with little japanese style. The mise-en-scene inside is surreal as they all covered with dark colors. I don't really understand what it wants to tell, the overall feeling and tension is powerful, I think it is about desire, something like that. But I really love the way it develops, how the dice came out by different methods... etc...
Giacomo Balla Abstract Speed - The Car Has Passed, 1913 Oil on Canvas
Giacomo Balla Warship, Widow and Wind (Veil of Vedova and Landscape), 1916 Oil on Burlap
Giacomo Balla Alberi Mutilati, 1918 Oil on Canvas
Giacomo Balla Abstract Speed and Sound, 1913-14 Oil on Board
Abstract Art Artist
Giacomo Balla was part of the first wave of Futurist painters and was born in 1871. He was a well known teacher in his time and his pupils included Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini. Balla's early works were greatly influenced by Seurat and the pointillist movement, but by 1912 he had joined the Futurist movement. After 1909 Balla's paintings became more and more concerned with the portrayal of light, speed and movement - this fascination is demonstrated in his works such as The Hand of the Violinist, and the Speed of the Motorcycle. As Balla sought to break down elements such as light to their simplest forms he moved closer to total abstraction in his paintings. By 1914 Balla was so involved in his art work, and his belief in Futurism that he named his two daughters Propeller and Light! During the second wave of Futurism in the 1920's Balla remained to be a strong force within the younger Futurists. Balla's paintings and sculptures slowly began to shift to more geometric forms, which he would alternate with figurative abstractions. By the end of his life, Balla had moved away from Futurism all together even though he had been an important driving influence. Giacomo Balla died in 1958.
Giacomo's painting can let you sense the power of speed. As he was so appreciate the invention of car which is the fastest transporting machine he had never seen (speed of car was about 50km/h that period), he wanted to express the feeling of speed on his paintings. Mobility and overlapping features of painting was his unique style. Besides he brought out an new idea: A painting, named “Abstract Speed + Sound” by him, stayed a new idea that frame can be an extension of painting but not separate. His painting is a kind of medium specificity as he extracted colors and lines from traditional way of painting instead of depicting things in reality. His painting is full of power and he was become one of my favourite painter =)
Ani*Kuri is a series of 15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan`s animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".
Here are some of them:
In this series, different animators used their own style to create a specific topic of one-minute animation short film. There are many variation in these 15 short animation and each of them have their unique style. Inside these 15 animation, some animators are familiar to us, for example, Studio 4 Degree C, 押井守, 新海誠, etc... This kind of project is a very good platform for animators to show their own style and explore their animation. I like episode 2 very much, the buildings of the whole city are built by cardboards, the message of "artificial" is brought out easily. And it also express the cold and detached of people in society. Everyone will be disappointed by the cold city even UFO think so.
The avant-garde in Japan is animation, which is giving life to images. These short animations give life to images, meanwhile, there are narration, new media and very rich imagination. Sometimes a short one is better than long one as the climax brought out faster. Therefore, I enjoy watching this kind of short animation.
- varied length of shots - repetition - sense of rhythm
- ellipsis - shot complete
- meaning incompleted but we are able to carry on
DOSCOM - discontinuity of space, continuity of action / movement
Dream / fantasy --> narrative status - destablized - fluid circulation
- structural film
- Stan Brakhage
- Window Water Baby Moving - Born of Baby
- autobiography - the process
*Jonas Mekas
was born in Semeniskiai, Lithuania, in 1922. He lives and works in New York. After being imprisoned by the Nazis in a forced-labour camp and a period in Belgian Displaced Person camps, Mekas studied philosophy at the University of Mainz 19461948. He then emigrated with his brother Adolfas to the United States, settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Mekas discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogels Cinema 16, and began to screen his own films in 1953. In 1954 he became Editor-in-Chief of Film Culture magazine, and in 1958 he began his groundbreaking Movie Journal column in The Village Voice. In 1962 Mekas founded the Film-Makers Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Filmmakers Cinematheque. The latter eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the worlds largest repositories of avant-garde film, which Mekas continues to direct.
Mekass film output includes narrative (Guns of the Trees, 1961), documentary (The Brig, 1963) and diaries (Walden, 1969; Lost, Lost, Lost, 1975; Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania, 1972; Zefiro Torna, 1992, and As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, 2001).
In addition to his prolific output in film, Jonas Mekas has published 24 volumes of poetry, essays, interviews, and diaries, and has been the subject of 12 book-length studies. His films have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and many others. (all from www.e-flux.com)
Cinema should be about
- documentary
- inventive comparison correspondent
- only show portion of an object
(not show whole object, turn them to the unique vision of the world, "the familiarization")
--> Make familiar things not familiar by CU or special angles or special framing methods or tightness of shot, get you away from normal view
A super cool animation using mixed media to create. Its story is mainly about how can we change our destiny to the way we want. Although it is about an old topic: time reversing, the way and visual it presents this topic is extremely attractive for me!! I love animation because of its range of imagination can be very large, at the same time, the way it expresses can also be very surreal as it is not limited by reality. In this animation, the way of visualizing those plots is super rich. 3D, 2D, motion capture, all things you can image to create visual are used but you would not have a sense of chaos. So, I love it very much.
Besides, I appreciate the studio 4 Degree C very much. This is a very famous animation production team in Japan. They create a brand new world for animation and explore more methods in producing animation. More their work are on below...
This is a small art exhibition held at Times Square of Causeway Bay. I chose to go because I like illustration very much, and this show was showing products and installations of one of the Hong Kong artist, Chocolate Rain. Although it is a bit commercialize, I think it is quite worth to go as the way it displayed was very attractive and colorful, which was able to capture our gaze at once we entered.
Her illustrations and characters are combined with colors and patterns. Those patterns are patterns found mostly in cloth. So they are just like made by our old clothes. They provide a sense of kindness for us.
Want to talk something not really about new media art but videos.
Traditionally, videos are captured by films. When the time digital age developed rapidly, people found that using digital format in producing videos is more convenient than film. Afterwards, even some people addicted to computer generating visual, which is like the music video above.
I like this kind of visual as we cannot find this kind of images in nature or reality. This can undoubtedly giving me illusions and shock because of its beauty in form and colors. But can it replace traditional video which tends to capture reality? I don't think so. I think it is because we all love narrative to rationalize what we saw, narrative can hardly based on this kind of random visual explosion. Therefore, traditional film may not be eliminated and even it can use new form of videos to enhance its attraction.
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