Project 7: (Film 2)
This open-ended film project only mandated the use of two or more perspectives. The freedom was initially and persistently intimidating, but I think it allowed a certain ownership of content.
For me, it is important that I process my own life through specific arrangements of details that recollect and reinterpret what clutters my psyche. Identity and our active role in shaping and presenting it, the strange space between internal world and external world, the mirrors of many kinds that reflect back to us who we are and are not... al these themes are interesting to me.
Stylistically, I notice that I tend towards a collage-effect. I like an eclectic assortment of visuals and audio because I think it lends more ambiguity and therefore is more moldable to subjective interpretation. I am steering my viewers but letting them sort and make sense of rather disparate elements.
I have my own contextual framework and they have theirs. I like to capitalize on that and let the art object serve as an instrument for introspection.
One note further, the critique time is a veritable collage itself. It is incredible to see the variety of films created by peers. By comparison, I help better identify my own practice. My friends' films too serve as a mirror for myself.
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