Moving Image

In this lecture we looked at moving image to give us an idea of we can create.

We got told to think about:

• What happened before/after the image was taken? We as the photographer have complete control

• Create tension in your work. Lighting? Dramatic? Build a story in way but don’t give too much away

• We will be experimenting with much more than just photography

• Must have a very strong narrative

We looked at:

• Gregory Crewdson - creates tension with lighting

• Juno Calypso

• Lauret Fievet - ‘Carlotta’s way 2014’ Trailer

• Alex Prager, La Grande Sortie - Psychodrama - hitchcock territory  

• Tracey Moffat - ‘other’ - still and moving image - commenting on class and ethnicity, overcoming hurdles - very fast paced

• Kahlil Joseph (directed Lemonade for Beyonce) - ‘wildcat’ - black cowboys don’t exist, myth? Black and white, creates contrast, music creates mystery, could get a lot of strong stills from this - other people can take control of their image and be different

• Shirin Neshat - Turbulent  - highlighting the difference between how men and women are treated, the man has a big crowd and the women has no one watching even though she is a lot more talented - the sound track is key to the narrative - camera keeps panning around the women and stays still on the man, the man faced away from the crowd when he sung - Iran, the man sung first then women stands very still then the women sung and the camera panned around her

• Maya Deren Meshes of the Afternoon - doesn't reveal her face, the camera follows where she is looking at the beginning, significance of the flower? Significance of the knife? Music is very eery! Who is the women who is all covered up? Multiple of the same women, who is the man? Is the women crazy? Key object - key, knife, mirror - could be about confused identity?

• Stan Brakhage ‘mothlight’ looks pretty but it's a bit boring, no sound, a lot of moths had to die in order to make the ‘movie’ , fast paced

• Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia - single shot film, links of time and memory, slowly burns photos then narratives how and why he took the photos whilst they burn. Very slow in pace, black and white

• Alain Resnais, All the Memory in the World - music is trying to build suspense, black and white, narrated

• Douglas Gordon, 24 hour psycho

• Christian Marclay, the clock

• Bill Viola, the crossing 1996 -supposed to be a still portrait that is a moving image

• Gordon Parks - cinematography