Screen media stems for me from a cheesy small town girl story. Brown curly hair, single mother, dog lover and drinker of stories. Particularly the ones that you can see, that move. Mum and I watched movies to escape our small town lives, revealing people and places I had never seen and the possibilities of what I could be.
I grew up believing I would slay vampires like Buffy, go to Harvard like Rory Gilmore, draw and live in a Ghibli world all while solving the Laura Palmer murder.
My mother led the way down the yellow brick road past Bate's motel dancing and running with Anna Karina through Paris before arriving at Tara.
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
left to right: Nosferatu (1922) Dir. F.W Murnau, Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Dir. Werner Herzog, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) Created by Joss Whedon
When we looked at silent films in the lecture Nosferatu was one of the first that came to mind, and the vampires that would follow.
- Silent film, black and white
- To colour
- Practical effects
- Moody lighting with vignette until buffy
- All shot using analogue film processes (buffy has been HD remastered tragically)
Fruit of Paradise (1970) Dir: Vera Chytilová
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence. (Chytilová)
- colour use, symbolic and high contrast
- close up shots of nature, animals and human faces
- wide shots, subject centrally positioned
- double exposure, layered film or projected imagery
- warm colours indicating passion, use of fruit as biblical imagery
A Ghost Story (2017) Dir. David Lowery
- colour continuity
- reads like a photographic series
- windows and reflections used symbolically like the sheeted ghost
Lecture notes:
- Moving image and sound
- Transmedia ecologies, various screen sizes and soundscapes attached to them ie a plane, vs a cinema
- Using analogue and digital film formats
- screens are everywhere, I'm looking at a screen as I jot down notes
- Ubiquitous and pervasive
- How we consume and interpret screen media
- To the important end of produce make and create screen media
- How screen has been used through time, a new media
- How they have changed and
- Multiscreen installation in art galleries (film used in art practice)
- How do people
- Art form evolved from cinematic arts, knowledges, platforms and media
- Cinematic arts continue to evolve and mutually transform each other
- Innately inventive technologies, that are used everyday, we want to be producers as much as consumers
- How sound influences how we experience the story
- Foundational and practical exploration through film history
- Birth of cinema - Lumiere films
Ed Ruscha, Standard, Amarillo, Texas, 1962, from Twenty Six Gas Station series, Silver Gelatin Print.
Image Analysis
Nostalgic
isolation
Black and white film
Chemical processing
Waiting to see your final image
Road trip
Male photographer
Associated with pop art movement
Street photography, a scene no people present
Part of a series - first artist book published Twenty Six Gas Station series
Shadows of a traffic light, across the road from the petrol station
Missing works tab (for retrospective of work)
Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving," American artist Ed Ruscha once said. "Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time."
Sources:
Activity: Where you're from?
Where I am from
KEYWORDS
- Stars
- Earth
- Flowers
- Flesh
- Mother
- Incense
- Grass
- Coffee
- Sunburns
- Women crying
- Female friends
- Laughter
- TV light
- Black and white tiles
- Incense
- Yellowed book pages
- Evening summer storms
- Dust and dirt
- Cherry blossoms
- Records
I am from candlelight
From coffee and Yellowed book pages
I am from the Evening summer storms
from the dust and dirt of the earth
The sunburns and incense
from cut grass and cut flesh
Made of moonlight and magic
Walking across black and white tiles
To my female friends wearing flowers in their hair