Sunday, 9 November 2008

Installation!?!?!

Last critique after presenting my work with so much confidence from pulling off the water reflections, i totally forgot to think about how i would present the work. If I have still pulled out of the video as photographs, or even the original photographs from where the video came out from, how will they come by together in the same space and belong to the same project where they need each other and complete each other rather than take away from each other.

The whole project was pulled out of old photographs that i found in our store room, the video came from these photographs, so were the different approaches to this project and the different elements i came out with in the end, from photographs to video and stills from the video. The photographs must be there, maybe even the other photographs i worked on earlier, what i know for sure is that they will be the photos that are forgotten with a sense of loss or death or something that is suppose to be there but isn't.

I have always wanted the sound of water in my videos, it plays along well with the performance in the video; when the video starts off slow and so will the sound of the flow of the water and vice versa towards the end when the video becomes even more and more aggressive.

I had an incredible opportunity to meet 2 french film makers during Pecha Kucha IV (Charolette & Claire) who strongly recommend the idea of an installation for this project. having in mind all of the elements i have mentioned it cant work any other way, i need to make this room my mind, i need to build my mind as an installation and have people experience what it is like for me trying to recap my childhood. This room should be as abstract and surreal as my water projections shots. Im still trying to figure out how the over all will look, but have a lot of ideas playing around with the idea of photo albums that turn to white in the end, or a cupboard that is falling apart and broken with fragments of my belongings or what i recall in there. Considering sound, video, light, space, time, ...etc installation is definitely the way to go, it will boost the strength of my project. I know its a big mad im thinking of this right now, but i wont settle for anything less for the time being. This room can be my mind, my lost memory, my grave, my living room...

Ill post my sketches of the room and my ideas later on...

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