We had a lecture today on how sound and how it can help sympathy and emotions towards certain things, this was to help us with our current essay on Persepolis and how we can relate what we saw to the film in question.
The first piece we watched was Disclaimer, by Michael Curran, A thought-provoking and disturbing work which questions the motivations recording another person's image on video. As the performer is made to carry her speech, repeatedly saying
"The characters and events portrayed in this videotape are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to persons known either living or dead is purely coincidental" she becomes increasingly distressed. The viewer is left wondering what happens when the camera is switched off. Its gotta be said that i did find the clip disturbing as you see her get continuously upset, but i do think what curran has produced is vey clever. It challenges the truthfulness behind film, and how nothing is ever what it seems, here is always some sort of construction involved.
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| Still from the video installation Disclaimer. |
The second piece we saw was Reveal, by Dryden Goodwin, the short video focuses on the evolution of a portrait made on a piece of paper videoed from a small camera above. The soundtrack plays back the developing conversations and interactions Goodwin had with strangers whom he approached The video discloses the decision process of marks for each drawing as well as the exchange between 'sitter' and 'artist’. I found this piece amazing, to be honest. The fact that at the start all you hear is the mans voice, and you automatically picture a person in your head, and then as he begins to draw, you see that in fact he is nothing like you would imagine. You also get an insight into the mans life, the sound is enough to give you an emotional and sympathetic feeling towards his life.
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| Still from the video installation Reveal |
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