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Conversations: Azim

A conversation with Azim

 

– Memory in fragments, thinking back to our past

– Voyeurism, memory of eavesdropping

– simultaneous individual experiences, our ability to relate two individual experiences or events. (consider Soviet Montage)

– I am the camera, its my pair of eyes

– knowing what is beyond the frame vs. letting yourself be the camera through the screen

– presenting reality. Reality TV ‘more representative’ of America than movies are

– Ways of Seeing – John Berger, picture worth a thousand words

– Image or words are just different and equal mediums that can be suitable for delivering certain concepts depending on what it is

– The Nature of the Physical World – Arthur Eddington in David Lynch Swerves by Martha P. Nochimson

– imagery, visual aesthetics limiting concepts or imagination or experience down to a 3 dimensional visual experience that is then flattened onto a 2 dimensional plane

– act of filming being related to the expectation to present it to others. Filming for others

– Obsession with coherence in watching a film. A film as one story, has to make sense. rather than every bit of seemingly unrelated experiences or events being a part of one film (LIFE).

– Life is boring, spontaneous, random

– Film is a part of reality, films or film culture makes up part of our reality

– “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.” – Stan Brakhage.

– The camera changed the world not just historically, but in a more recent context, globalisation would be a slower process. Moving images and images in the social network, or information world.

– Without TV I wouldn’t be able to articulate my thoughts. (We should have mentioned how language affect our thinking process)

– It’s more realistic to think of media depictions of culture as “what American like to celebrate or value” or “what Japanese culture like to celebrate or value”

– Australian identity? Australian cinema?

– conversation gets into hippy territory…

 

Conversations: Mia/Amy/Maree

A conversation with Mia, Amy and Maree

 

– beautifying through the camera (exposure, angle, editing)

– never able to replicating real life

– unpredictability of filming in natural light

– seeing the events unfolding with one’s own eyes before responding with a camera

– film is essentially life with all the boring bits cut out

– a non real life, not mundane experience

Walk Scene Reflection

A conversation with Jess

 

Whilst piggybacking on Jess’s exploration of the walk scene, I have discovered how others have approached this research of methodology differently. Looking at Jess’s project and mine, our approaches are almost opposite in nature. She has set very clear goals and parameters in conducting her experiments as well as always being aware of keeping it simple; whereas my own experiments tend to revolve around an idea of aimlessness and curiosity, with no perceivable goals or perhaps even more questions. I think the most important discovery out of working with Jess was keeping a dialogue going between two minds, despite how different our projects are. In one way, this helps stimulate our reflective thought process, and have someone to give you more available feedback. On the other hand, we can provoke each other as we respond to each others’ discoveries or epiphanies with a fresh perspective along with our personal experiences.

After our first conversation, it inspired me to appreciate the dialogue more than just working with or assisting other filmmakers. This added a new tool for me to explore my topic with, and a new way of documentation.

Research: Walk Scene

A conversation with Jess

This week, I have decided to join Jess’s in her investigation of the walk scene. Although we will be investigating different aspects of the exercise, it is a great way to keep the conversation going as well as making the organizing of a shoot a lot more manageable.