Seance wrote:
I've watched a few different "duration" films projected on film and it can be (depending on the film) incredible.
And of course the work of John Cage was a huge influence for a lot of avant-garde filmmakers. So duration plus
form is an appealing equation for lots of filmmakers just as it is for certain musicians.
You can step up to a painting or sculpture and spend as much or as little time with it as you desire. I guess
it says something about musicians and filmmakers/videomakers that they want to sculpt time and control even
that dimension of a viewer's experience. They want people to walk into a dark room and quiet their thoughts and
close their mouths and open their minds and soak it all in over a specified duration. Some people rebel against
such an imposition.
I bet Michael Snow would have something interesting to say about demanding a certain amount of time from the viewer with the duration of the film, given his other work as a sculptor and painter, etc. He was at that screening, but for some reason or another I don't have strong memories of the Q&A after the 3-hour movie!
(I see Snow at gigs from time to time, but he's one of the few music people I feel awkward about chatting with.)
I guess, besides telling you that you can tune out if you want to, there's not much that a film-maker can do but impose on your time, because the duration of the shot is just inherent in the medium. Conversely, I wonder if any painters or sculptors have ever insisted that viewers look at their works for a certain minimum of time just to soak it all in...
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:38 pm
by Seance
Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:Conversely, I wonder if any painters or sculptors have ever insisted that viewers look at their works for a certain minimum of time just to soak it all in...
Well Duchamp did make that peephole piece where he forced your eye into a specific perspective.
Étant donnés
And then there are the installation/film crossovers that try to sculpt those parameters, like Janet Cardiff.
I've actually seen this piece where you walk into the little theatre and hear "people" whispering around you
as part of the audio.
But in general I would say that painters/sculptors that force you to engage with something for a set period
of time are described as being "performance artists". But... not all performance art enforces a time element
even if time is one of the primary components.
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:13 am
by Seance
Here's another potential soundtrack I made for another hand-painted 16mm scratch animation that I made.
Here is the latest pedal-puddle in which I was able to stomp. Next time I'll remember my rain boots.
I recently got my animation program back up and running, so I added some titles and a small
amount of animation and the beginning and end of the clip. Enjoy!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B30grgolM0[/youtube]
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 2:14 pm
by Seance
Hopefully I can manage to make similar clips on a semi-regular basis.
Here's another clip I did today with a couple fuzzes and a delay for added texturization.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8-wk-lh68[/youtube]
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:13 am
by Seance
I guess it is a misnomer to call this "stomping" on a puddle of pedals since
they were on a table top and were gently depressed by my fingers.
In any event, here is a guitar drone that I muzzed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyNMY8mTL7o[/youtube]
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 11:48 am
by Heraclitus Akimbo
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 12:28 pm
by Seance
Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:
Re: A puddle of pedals
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:16 pm
by moid
I like that drone! It reminds me of a demo track I made a couple of years ago that never managed to become anything else:
