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.