Presentation Responses and Installation

So Michel Gondry (Me-shell) inspires me a lot with his work because it has such variety to it and other-worldly qualities to it. It's, for a lack of a better word, so weird! The morphing style, which I fumbled on during my presentation, was called the Michel Gondry effect. The interview where he explained it confused me because he's fumbling his english. What I got out of it was he would take two cameras, one for frame per second that took pictures and another that shot video, and lay them both together to form this frozen in time effect.

Marth Colburn's work made me feel anxious. I mean, during some if her work I started to shake my leg up and down. It actually annoyed Gabby because she was feeling anxious as well! I get that it was meant to evoke such a feeling of uneasiness, so it did it's job. I personally don't find enjoyment in feeling unconfortable though, but if I wanted to show someone what experimental film is Colburn would be someone I show them. I do appreciate the amount if effort that goes into the medium she displays on, I just wish I didn't dissassociate so hard when watching it.

For the installation I really have never worked on a form more than on the screen for film. It seems to be such a modern and tangible way to portray film...so I'm not sure how it's going to go! All I will say is I'm glad I'm not the director of this project as I would have no idea what direction to go. We discussed lights and a tubular vortex...thing? I'm not sure what direction we're going but whatever it is Jake wants us to do I'll help out in any way!

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