Balsamic Vinegar

The Balsamico Performance. Litsa Spathi makes a salad with oil and balsamico. The liquid is moved and monsters are formed. All transformed into this video. Published by Fluxus Heidelberg 2006


It's quite a coincidence that I came across this video- I was thinking of filming liquids mixing, specifically filming a clear or white liquid from below whilst drops of a red liquid are poured into it form above. I want to project these images, make an installation of these 'moving paintings'.

Anyway, I was looking up fluxus pieces on youtube, and I found this. It reminds me a lot of Brakhage's experiments with direct applications onto film (Mothlight, etc.)

Mong-Hong Chung: Doctor (2006)

Some Inspiration

Lissa Corona Exercise 1 of 3

I like the simplicity of the shot, but the emotional depth of this video is what I find really intriguing about it. Lissa Corona is exploring the physical boundaries of the human emotional experience, something which the medium of the moving image lends itself well to i think. I showed this to a few people after I first watched it, and no-one seemed to like it except me...nonetheless, its one of my favorites at the moment.



Stan Brakhage Mothlight





Stan Brakhage Window Water Baby Moving

I'm writing an essay on Stan Brakhage's work at the moment, and what I find inspirational about his work is his exploration of both film/video and the very essentials of human existence. He once wrote, '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 in perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to a baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?...Imagine a world before 'the beginning was the word.'" He concerns himself with 'birth, death, sex, and the search for God', and experiments with different forms of representationn/presentation, rarely following a structure or specific sensical narrative. His work has been refered to as 'poetic film', and this is probably the kind that I want to pursue as well, rather than the 'prose' of the narrative (feature) film.

Video Experiment No. 2

Here's one made with footage filmed at Booterstown beach with Dave. Might edit it a bit more.

Video Experiment

Here's a preliminary look at a piece I made with burrough's cut ups in mind. I'll probably continue editing it, and will most likely leave the ring segment out of it. I've got footage for another video (i filmed out the window in the media studio- filmed windows, pedestrians, signs, etc.) so I'll do another cut up style vid imminently.