Moving image 1 - Sam Taylor Wood

1. List two specific key relationships between Sam Taylor Wood's photography and film work?

She tries to convey a powerful and personal message in both of her works: photography and moving image.  She only uses people and emotions to narrate the story.

2. How does the use of multi-screen installation in her work reflect narrative?

It allows viewers to feel almost like they are part of the story, and technically they can narrate it themselves instead of having the narrative told to them. This sort of screening gets the viewers experience they cannot have while watching any other moving image work. Wood has been inspired by The Opera House in order to create her multi-screen installation in her work.


3. What other photographers use film as an integral part of their work. List two with examples?

Hollis Frampton he was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer and pioneer of digital art.

Michael Snow is another visual artist I came across; he works in painting, sculpture, video, films and photography.

4. Research three other Video artists and explain their working philosophy.

Tim Burton – Tim Burton, he is a contemporary artist and has done some typical “Blockbuster” movies, however what I personally like about his work is the animations he has created. He is known for dark and quirky-themed movies. Characters in his animations have specific face shape, usually longer thinner face with round almost circular eyes. Lots of them have also thin long legs. The monsters in his animations and movies have some similarities, being almost like a “trade-mark” of the artist.

examples: 

"Vincent" - This is Tim Burton stop motion animation 1982

"Corpse Bride" - Animation created in 2005, please note the character of Victor has similar characteristic to Vincent

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" - 1993, The character of Sally has similarities with Corpse Bride

"Beetlejuice" - 1988, the monster pictured here, is really similar to the monster which is shown in "Vincent"

Salvador Dali - Spanish Surreal artist widely known for his imaginative surrealistic paintings, he also worked in collaboration with Philippe Halsman to create great photographic outcomes. He also worked in moving image creating series of surrealistic pieces of silent movies, which faced a lot of critique and left many people surprised if not even shocked by the way he challenged their conventions.

Lotte Reiniger – A german animator, she used silhouette’s of the characters, locations and props in her animations, showing that message can be passed through, by simplicity without much focusing on facial expressions and details. She created few short movies, which were mostly based on children’s tales, for example “Hansel and Gretel” or “Cinderella”

Papageno 1935 

5. Show an example of a specific gallery space or a site specific location where
a video artist or film maker has created work specifically for that
space and been influenced by it.

Stuart Rosenberg has been influenced by the story of the haunted house in Amityville, USA so he took his crew to New Jersey in order to film “The Amityville Horror” the film was released in 1979. This is the infamous Amityville House in New Jersey America: