The Genius Of Moving Image – Part 1

The Genius Of Moving Image – Part 1

List 2 specific key relationships between Sam Taylor Wood’s Photography and film work?

Wood’s work is emotional and consists of personal experiences and people. She stars in many of her projects, whether they are photographic stills of moving image. Her work is also very narrative

How Does the Use of Multi Screen installation in her work reflect narrative?

The use of a multi screen installation reflects a narrative that the audience can take various meanings of. The audience can decide what it means and leaves it open to thought.

In “Killing Time, which was inspired by the back stage events of the Royal Opera House, 4 people mime to an opera score.by Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra. The reflections on one screen did not reflect what was happening on the other screens. The music was being felt differently and portrayed different feelings throughout.

What other photographers use film as an integral part of their work. List two with examples?

Tim Walker is a British Fashion Photographer and has entranced the readers of Vogue for years, since he was 25. His style is Extravagant, staged and romantic motifs characterize his style. He was a full time assistant to Richard Avedon in New York, before returning to the UK. In 2010 he shot his first short film ‘The Lost Explorer”.  A dark film, featuring 300 canaries, and lasting 20 minutes. The Story is simplistic, yet fascinating and with the element of disgust. A  young girl befriends " The LostExplorer" played by harry Potter's Richard Bremmer. She keeps his death and existence a secret from her parents. fairy tale style with a shocking end, involving the ghost ship and Canaries.

Research three other video artists and explain their working philosophy?

Andy Warhol – A controversial artist, whose work engages celebrity culture and explores its relationship with artistic expression and advertising. This flourished by 1960’s. Warhol’s film making Included silent films. They were shot at the sound speed of 24 frames per second and during the 1960’s he projected at the silent speed of 16fps resulting in slow motion. Some of his films are: Kiss, Sarah-Soup, Sleep, Taylor and Me, Haircut no.1

Peter Campus -  born in America in 1937 was known for his interactive, single channel video work of the early 70’s. He has extensive photographic and digital work spanning decades.  Campus achieved rapid acclaim for his series of groundbreaking video works, in which they explored issues of identity, reality and subversion of the relationship between the viewer and his work. From his work three transitions, persistence of Vision, Campus videos himself cutting through a wall of paper but films it from both sides and projects it onto the paper he is cutting. It is a real mind bending film.

Bill Viola – A world celebrated video artist, whose central themes of Human Consciousness and experience – Birth, Love, Death emotion and humanist spirituality. He has deep interests with Zen Buddhism, Christian Mysticism and Islamic Sufism

Show an example of a specific gallery space or a site specific location where a video artist or film maker has created work specifically for that space and been influenced by it

Alnwick Castle In Northumberland was home to the Harry Potter Films. Hogwarts exterior was shot here, with scenes such as Quidditch, and the interior was filmed at Gloucester Cathedral, Which had caught the attention of Director Chris Columbus (The Philosopher’s Stone - 2001 and The Chamber of Secrets - 2002). Scenes were also shot at Harrow School and Durham Cathedral. Canterbury cathedral was one of the First choices, however they declined as they did not agree with the Pagan theme.