Presentation and Reading Responses
Marlon Riggs
This was a particular person I was excited to discuss about. I adore Riggs' courage to create to the highest caliber. He went against the grain for what society considers "appropriate" and would unforgivably shove the fact that he was gay and black in your face. These two identities together has long been stigmatized, and he saw his chance as an educated individual to give people like him history. He brought an understanding of the plights that gay black men face from the racism in America to the othering from the LGBT community. Marlon Riggs is the first modern individual who dared acknowledge his background and is forever an iconic individual for gay black men.
Su Friedrich
I really enjoyed discussing Friedrich's work. Lesbians are another highly stigmatized identity. Her work seemed very secretive, depressing, and personable. The sink or swim film where she was recounting an incident with her father almost made me choke up. I watched more of Hide and Seek, and its vision of girls singing and playing was ominous and offsetting. You can tell that Su has a dark past yet the way she chooses to portray it doesn't tell you enough specifics to truly know her. I would love to speak with her about her world views and philosophy, she seems to have very structured ideals that she abides by.
Jen Proctor
Simply put, this presentation gave me anxiety. Not because of Jen's history, but because of her work with the airplane short. The repetitions of what movies show in plane crashes made me so nervous because we kept seeing it again and again, as if this is a common occurrence for riding a plane. I know that the possibility of a plane crash happening is incredibly low, but it still made me not want to ride a plane ever again! (and I flew all the way to China and back!) I also respect her consistency with found footage, as I myself find making stuff with found footage to be a daunting task!
Art House Reading
It was interesting reading about the evolution of art house cinema. It seems that the author is criticizing some lost aspects of art house cinema which is the appreciation for film as an art instead of going because watching art films is "trendy." I find this argument to be silly because with the expansion of a medium comes a greater appreciation for it. Yes, some people might join in because its the next big thing, but I feel this hipster attitude towards the streamlining of art house cinema to be immature. I found the Imagin-Asian discussion in the article to be the most interesting for me, because many Americans don't consider countries in Asia to have a much of a pop-culture outside of genres such as kpop and anime. I particularly am fascinated by Chinese culture, and to know there is a particular niche that broadcasts films made there is exciting for me.
Edit: I have just read up about ImaginAsian on wiki and it seems it dissolved in 2011. That's disappointing.
This was a particular person I was excited to discuss about. I adore Riggs' courage to create to the highest caliber. He went against the grain for what society considers "appropriate" and would unforgivably shove the fact that he was gay and black in your face. These two identities together has long been stigmatized, and he saw his chance as an educated individual to give people like him history. He brought an understanding of the plights that gay black men face from the racism in America to the othering from the LGBT community. Marlon Riggs is the first modern individual who dared acknowledge his background and is forever an iconic individual for gay black men.
Su Friedrich
I really enjoyed discussing Friedrich's work. Lesbians are another highly stigmatized identity. Her work seemed very secretive, depressing, and personable. The sink or swim film where she was recounting an incident with her father almost made me choke up. I watched more of Hide and Seek, and its vision of girls singing and playing was ominous and offsetting. You can tell that Su has a dark past yet the way she chooses to portray it doesn't tell you enough specifics to truly know her. I would love to speak with her about her world views and philosophy, she seems to have very structured ideals that she abides by.
Jen Proctor
Simply put, this presentation gave me anxiety. Not because of Jen's history, but because of her work with the airplane short. The repetitions of what movies show in plane crashes made me so nervous because we kept seeing it again and again, as if this is a common occurrence for riding a plane. I know that the possibility of a plane crash happening is incredibly low, but it still made me not want to ride a plane ever again! (and I flew all the way to China and back!) I also respect her consistency with found footage, as I myself find making stuff with found footage to be a daunting task!
Art House Reading
It was interesting reading about the evolution of art house cinema. It seems that the author is criticizing some lost aspects of art house cinema which is the appreciation for film as an art instead of going because watching art films is "trendy." I find this argument to be silly because with the expansion of a medium comes a greater appreciation for it. Yes, some people might join in because its the next big thing, but I feel this hipster attitude towards the streamlining of art house cinema to be immature. I found the Imagin-Asian discussion in the article to be the most interesting for me, because many Americans don't consider countries in Asia to have a much of a pop-culture outside of genres such as kpop and anime. I particularly am fascinated by Chinese culture, and to know there is a particular niche that broadcasts films made there is exciting for me.
Edit: I have just read up about ImaginAsian on wiki and it seems it dissolved in 2011. That's disappointing.
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