Here's something I worked on recently.
Shot under very low light on Super16 Colour Neg, 500T, and push processed.
Frame by frame 5K RAW digital scan done by myself on a 1970's Analysis Projector and Canon DSLR.
Camera, film processing and digital grade by Callum Ross-Thomson.
The way I interpret meaning in a work is that what you experience in a work is precisely that which it is meant to be.
This does not preclude what might also otherwise be said about a work, be it from the artist's point of view, or some other point of view.
But I won't offer any words myself as I was not the artist on this work, and any critical distance that would otherwise afford me is compromised by having been involved in the making of the work (if only a very small part).
C
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woods01 wrote:Nice 80s horror film vibe! While it has cuts in it, it has the feel of being one extended take. Looks like a lot of work went into it, well done!I take it that this is also an example of your technique dealing with the orange mask that you posted about in great detail not too long ago?
Yes - it was for this work I was asked by the artist (Callum Ross-Thomson) how the orange mask in colour negative might be handled - the solution to which then became my posts on the subject, and which Callum employed in this particular work.
That's what I thought. Because it's incomprehensible it MUST be Art ... and therefore I must enjoy the feeling that I don't understand its incomprehensibility.
I suppose that the sentence I have just written in gobbledegook makes me an Artist also. Whoopee!
Congratulations to both of you! Great to finally see some filmic output from Down Under. I really like the tune and the vibe. Feels like campy Andy Warhol's Factory kind of thing but shot in color. A loose collective of people just hanging out looking for aliens on the roof with some really gross pre-puking. What camera did Callum use? Very French to have the girls smoking in the tub. I really wanted to see heavy smoke. As in cancerous.
I am inspired to try this long take thing. More please.
Nicholas Kovats
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granfer wrote:That's what I thought. Because it's incomprehensible it MUST be Art ... and therefore I must enjoy the feeling that I don't understand its incomprehensibility.
I suppose that the sentence I have just written in gobbledegook makes me an Artist also. Whoopee!
I don't think what you've written is gobbledegook. But even if it were that wouldn't be what makes you an artist. You'd be an artist anyway. An artist who writes gobbledegook. Likewise the work's incomprehensibility doesn't make it art. It will be art anyway. I'm not sure why it's incomprehensibility requires that one "must" enjoy the work. Surely any attempt to enforce enjoyment on oneself would be counter-productive?
But is your writing gobbledegook? I'm not too sure. I certainly don't see any meaninglessness in what you've written (or excessive use of technical terms). But there is an interesting use of the concept of incomprehension. Not only will the work be incomprehensible. But it's very incomprehensibility will also be incomprehensible:
"I don't understand it's incomprehensibility"
I can't help but read this as a particularly powerful starting point for some further thought.
Nicholas Kovats wrote:Congratulations to both of you! Great to finally see some filmic output from Down Under. I really like the tune and the vibe. Feels like campy Andy Warhol's Factory kind of thing but shot in color. A loose collective of people just hanging out looking for aliens on the roof with some really gross pre-puking. What camera did Callum use? Very French to have the girls smoking in the tub. I really wanted to see heavy smoke. As in cancerous.
I am inspired to try this long take thing. More please.
Thanks Nicholas. There's a lot happening in Oz in terms of making and screening short independant films, but not much happening in terms of putting that work up on the web. The main focus is live event work. Web publishing, if considered at all, tends to be an afterthought, and one that can just as easily end up on the back burner. Many works just don't translate. They are made on film to be shown on film.
Carl
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