Week 7, on Stan Brakhage Metaphors on Vision

Brakhage's writing is beautiful, poetic. He emphasized on the importance of the primitive, or the "minds" eye in our consciousness. I watched his films "Moonlight" and "Window Water Baby Moving" and understood he used a lot of minds eye in the shooting. It seemed to me a bit too much. I am not sure we want to cling on the primitive side of vision after we human have spent a million years to climb the ladder of the food chain but to waste our gifted vision with better clarity, definition and resolution.

- Lily

Hitchcock explains Eisenstein

Week 2 -- On Movie Kino Eye

In this movie, I find the steam engine wheel accompanied by the fast-paced music at the beginning of the movie set the rhythm of the whole movie. I used this method in my homework Project-2 “My Song”.

Week 1 - on reading F.T. Marinetti "Futurist Manifesto"

Reading F.T. Marinetti’s article reminded me of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Major Barbara”, both have the tone of defiance and smell of gun powder. Like everything else from that period, it talked about revolution and struggle. Since Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, the revolution swept Europe and Russia. In the art world, impressionism was falling behind, steam engines, winged figures and steel wheels had become the symbol of the future art in the early 20th century.

Questions about

Hello,

Did anyone received the class syllabus? I am not clear what to do with this blog. Is this for turning in homework? Do we have homework, and if we do when is the due date? I am afraid that I am out of the loop.

Please help.

Lily

new student

   good  morning Mike  i just  sign in  and  accept  the invitations

  I am looking   forward to learn this  course , this  experience  is new too me as the students

  and  i am looking  for the a lot  of help and tips  from you and others fellow students to learned and
  be a good part  of the community

                                                                   thank you

Welcome!

Welcome to Digital Video / Video Art at Richland's Multimedia program. This blog will be the central virtual space for posting responses to readings and information about associated events. In your responses, please post substantive, original thoughts accompanied by any media that will contribute toward the conversation. For example, this video about Damien Hirst might further our conversation on the art market:

Think of ways you can push the conversation forward this way. Looking forward to seeing you all in class!