Category: creativity

beyond the meta of esthetic inquiry. causes and

Elemental Film

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the difference between the frame and the frame strip — the tripod and a track — standing and walking. Everyone makes a movie as they drive. No single frame holds onto your mind. Driving, I see patterns against other patterns. The fence framing makes the scenic live.

Time is one of the strands of exposure. Short, long. Too much, too little. How we make an emulsion respond to light is a judgement made over time. The table of elements for camera craftsmen is exceedingly small — few basic means of achieving a life.

// Maya Deren. Titarenko. Slow cinema

Maya Deren (1917 – 1961). “was one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers of her time for her use of experimental editing techniques and her fascination with ecstatic religious dances. Deren earned an MA in English literature from Smith in 1939 before joining choreographer Katherine Dunham’s tour. “

“The still photograph is concerned with the isolation of the moment.  The moment is stayed, composed within a stable frame.  Films are concerned with the way in which a moment passes and becomes the next. This metamorphosis cannot be composed within the frame, but only through frames, from one frame to the next.” — Maya Deren

NOTES:

  • Brakhage, Stan. “Maya Deren.” In Film at Wit’s End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers (1989): 91–112.
  • Clark, VeVe, Millicent Hudson, and Catrina Neiman. The Legend of Maya Deren (1984).
  • Deren, Maya. Papers. Department of Special Collections, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University. NAW modern.
  • Obituary. NYTimes, October 14, 1961, 23:4.
  • Renan, Sheldon. An Introduction to the American Underground Film (1967).
  • Sadoul, Georges. Dictionary of Film Makers (1972).
  • Vogel, Amos. Film as a Subversive Art (1974).
Titarenko .. studio visit

“.. Proust taught me that the only way to communicate and to share what I was feeling with others is the use of the metaphor…” Titarenko

the City as Novel.. short

“slow cinema” concept.

  • Arnheim R. (1993) From Pleasure to Contemplation. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51: 195-197.
  • Bíro Y (2008) Turbulence and flow in film – The rhythmic design. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Boer J (2015) As slow as possible: An enquiry into the redeeming power of boredom for slow film viewers. Unpublished Paper, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Doane MA (2002) The emergence of cinematic time – Modernity, contingency, the archive. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Flanagan M (2012) Slow Cinema: temporality and style in contemporary art and experimental Film. PhD thesis, University of Exeter, UK.
  • Margulies I (1996) Nothing happens – Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist everyday. Durham, London: Duke University Press.
  • Wollen P (2000) Time in video and film art. In: Capellazzo A (ed) Making time: considering time as a material in contemporary video and film. Palm Beach, Fla.: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, pp.7-13.

Daisuke Yokota

Posted on Posted in art school, creativity, meaning, on photographers, overnight notes, The Other

Born: 1983- //  Yokota is part of a 
generation of young artists using photography in subversive 
new ways. His approach combines multiple rephotographing 
and printing, applying acid or flame to the end results, and 
making one-off prints and books from unexpected materials 
in staged public performances. Yokota is working out of, and 
pushing forward, a Japanese tradition of photobook-making 
that harks back to the visceral experimentation of the Provoke 
generation 

“I don’t make work to express my feelings, it’s more like burning them“

the Zine form: “A self published limited edition zine, the publication marks one of Yokota’s earliest printed works. Experimental and distinct to his book-making process, SITE is a series of images which displays the artist’s photographic approach in exploring both memory and time. With SITE, Yokota chose to experiment with both photoshop and digital forms of image distortion.” https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/site

“His practice consists in constantly revisiting his own archive of personal photographs by adding layers of accidents, in order to metaphorically signify the superimposition of states of consciousness and memories. Of- ten referring to the principles of echo and reverb, Yokota also establishes links between visual and musical fields. One could say that he captures ‘noise’ in the broadest sens of the word.

Daisuke Yokota is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed artist’s books, either handmade and self-published or realized with various publishers.” https://jeankentagauthier.com/en/artistes/presentation/5/daisuke-yokota

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DAISUKE YOKOTA — For Color Photographs, I worked with layered sheets of unused, large-format color film, experimenting with the development before scanning them. Generally, photography exists to record reality. The present development of technology ignores the material. Originally, needless to say, film negatives generated the image, and there was paper to stabilize it. In short, photography is a combination of images without the mass and the matter [film and paper]. For
Color Photographs, I focused on this material side. https://purple.fr/magazine/ss-2016-issue-25/daisuke-yokota/

note the foils included… how they overlay.

finally, flashback, only because it makes those of the hobby board wonder…

very clear explanation that leaves those expecting their method to be the only method, mis-interpreting the steps

the first group of amateur, the most common type, understand only what they know how to do.

See. Stop. Click

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We walk around, make our way to or from something. If we look with easy eyes, arrangements, occasions, even sounds prompt attention. Further inspection, reaction. Most of us, for most of the time are more involved with something else to see what is seeable. People drive thousands of miles without seeing what they drive past so they can do what they think is expected; do what the great-one did.

Three instances of misses, and the effort of making them. These are all part of the infinite roll. They aren’t edited; not even change of exposure. They remain direct phonecaptures.

I notice something — not a snake. has a shiny part. So, I make an exposure. This assures that the angle, first surface of the render is made.

walking closer, make another exposure.. it will need post to succeed. As it is, it fails.

Inside, a mirror and shop display. It must be something. Feels like it, because of the light patterns. As I adjust my position things arrange themselves. Three tries. I’m tempted to move the mirror; even the bench. I don’t. This isn’t a studio shot. If it were, I’d feather the lights. Make changes to the surface of the mirror. Dulling spray applied locally.

Three it didn’t work. If it had been on film no chance of getting that image — film that could have done it would be cinema film.

Outside; windows with words. Breaking the scene into one word pulled apart. It fails. The bush that would do the main “obscuring” isn’t dense enough. This could be retouched. Not certain this is worth the effort, given the format of the file — too low pixel density. Is it worth the return with the Phase Back?

We can see before we can walk. We can walk before we read. Everything leads us toward understanding.

If you think it might be something, make it into that something. If you can’t; if it just doesn’t work, make the effort anyway, otherwise, you won’t know, and if you don’t know, you don’t learn. The main learning isn’t about the how of things. It is the other part of things.