See here a video which employs editing to alter narrative time and meaning. Background on Omer Fast, interviews and other videos to be found here. http://www.art21.org/artists/omer-fast
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Indirect Portraits
Consider how you can shoot footage of any object in a way that allows that object to be a metaphor (and for this project a portrait) of something entirely different. Towards the end of class break, we were having an informal discussion about how to define art. What is art? Our classmate, David, brought up […]
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Real Time Video (Chickens in World Trade Center)
Read here about Paul Pfeiffer’s project streaming real time footage of the life of chickens presented in the location of commuter passageways. https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/5845_orpheus_descending
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Cameras on Moving Objects (Pigeons)
Here is a documentation of Duke Riley’s project, Trading with the Enemy. Remember, if you break the Library camera, you have to replace it. I wouldn’t attach it to a Pigeon.
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Slow shots, still scenes and closeups
Not all video shoots need to have a lot of action. Take a look at some snippets of work by Pierre Huyghe. While the video jumps from work to work a little to quickly, you can see his use of slow moving shots, moments of stillness and close examinations of beings and places in […]
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Fischli & Weiss Video
For Project One, you can make a portrait of an object. How do we study just an object? Here’s a video with footage only of moving objects – no people, no human intervention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tPAAiS04Y
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Old footage of New York City
Old footage of New York City. Hit the mute button!
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