"This video gives no answers. It only intends to appear and capture."
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Marshall McLuhan's theory about the notion of space as a confining entity emerging at a time when "perspective and pictorial space was developing in our Western world" served as a rough inspiration for the first scenes in which the viewer is repeatedly pulled back into enclosed spaces (61). The rest of the video experiments with disjointed and confusing spacial jumps as well as the order and pace of time. "Information pours upon us" as we watch disconnected images become connected and hints of linear-time narrative defy the laws of our physical world (63). We, as viewers, are instinctively confused by this disjointedness and as McLuhan warns, "when faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to . . . the most recent past" to make sense of the present in order to be more prepared for the future (74). However, this video gives no answers. It only intends to appear and capture.
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McLuhan quotes are taken from his bible, The Medium Is the Massage
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The was that seemingly consistent time / space relations (I'm thinking of the scenes of you wearing the band uniform) are actually captured at different times and in different places illustrates the way you say we "watch disconnected images become connected and hints of linear-time narrative defy the laws of our physical world" really well. The viewer assumes that you aren't wearing the hat so the falling in the snow must have been true, that you aren't wearing the jacket so the jacket falling must have been true, too.
ReplyDeleteThe whole idea of the video giving "no answers. It only intends to appear and capture" is a really cool one. It seemed like there were no expectations placed upon your audience to gain something profound that you didn't want to give. Like Noah pointed out, the time jump between the band uniform frames interesting because it really did seem continuous and that as the audience, we connect story lines that could be entirely false.
ReplyDeleteThis was trippy; I can't really think of another word for it. There's actually a name for the human tendency to make a story out of random images cut together--unfortunately, I can't remember what it's called. But this reminded me of that. There was also a lot of nice composition in this video with the trashcans, etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amanda. I like framing moments, I suppose. Like recording one specific things happen at one specific point in time.
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