Cameraless film experiments
This year, as part of my degree, I’ve been playing a lot with 16mm and Super8 film. I’ve developed a sort of habit you could say, especially on the side of cameraless film. This is working directly onto film, almost like a canvas. So far the results have been pretty interesting as you are forced by the nature of the medium and the way its being used (that is, without a camera) to experiment.
The following image (down below) is of a small amount of the work, made by painting and dying directly onto clear 16mm film. After projecting it, it received comments such as “lush”, “scary” and “organic”. Pretty much was I was going for.
As I mentioned, the medium seems to demand experimentation. This was some what hammered home to me by artist Louise Curham. She was an Artist in Residence at the University of Wollongong recently, and her practice essentially experimentation in film. Through watching her work, performance and listening to her talk about her practice, I discovered I needed to make mistakes with my work through experimentations. Not only experiment in the work, but also in its performance. I seem to be moving towards film as a performance medium rather than one of recording and documentation. I can very much see myself ‘”DJing” with film/projectors, different from a VJ and definitely more towards the DJ side of performance. What that actually means is yet to be tested…
I absorbed a lot from Louise and it has come out in interesting experiments in the film medium.
Posted in Art Marking, Experimentation, Work In Progress on May 16th, 2008 by Robot Disco | | 2 Comments
