Category: Visual Art

Censor

I watched Censor, a 2021 British psychological horror film directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. It received the Méliès d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film.

In my opinion, it is one of the best thriller-horror movies that has come out in the past couple years and this is why:

Most horror movies are over-amplified and over-stimulated. What I mean is that they try to overwhelm your senses with big flashing lights and intense sound imagery. Moreover in terms of sound, many horror movies tend to overuse transients, meaning that they use sound with an envelope that has a strong attack. It’s intended to play with the audience’s senses through disorientation. I normally find this really annoying and too in your face, too obvious. So, with Censor, I felt that its use of sound was far more guiding and psychological, helping to create more of an ambience and it better complements the story. I hope to see more of this used in horror movies because its a much better use of horror. I feel like the genre of horror is progressing.

Michael Snow

Modulation of light and colour

Playing with the illusion of time

Real places become abstracted

Depth joins the objects

Artists Second Year Visual Art

Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage was an American filmmaker, mostly known for his experimental work.

He explored different techniques, painting onto celluloid, scratching, multiple exposures, collage.

Usually accompanied by music and poetry.

His work is extremely influential in the way I see film, Brakhage explores the boundaries of what is film and how its done.

Films Second Year

Dream Work

Tscherkassky’s films are as much about light and darkness in their purest physical forms as they are about any of the action one sees on screen. Rather, it’s light and darkness that interferes and intrudes into the lives of the characters on screen.

Tscherkassky looked to find a new direction for the Surrealist film tradition, by returning to Freud’s theories of The Interpretation of Dreams and the aesthetic principles laid down by André Breton in his original manifesto. Specifically, Dream Work (the final CinemaScope film) adheres to Breton’s conceived exploration of “Psychic automatism in its pure state”, investigating “the actual functioning of thought”.

Dream Work’s footage was copied by hand, frame by frame, on to unexposed film stock. It opens with a woman falling asleep.

Creative Coding Generative / Procedural Art Second Year Visual Art

TouchDesigner

TouchDesigner is a coding language, intended for multimedia and realtime visual art.

I enjoy using this program because of the user interface, it works in a similar way to a modular synthesizer. It also allows me easy use with Ableton.

Artists Live Events Second Year Visual Art

Ryoji Ikeda

Summer, 180 The Strand, Immersive RYOJI IKEDA exhibition

Ryoji Ikeda as for long been an influential audio-visual artist.

Exploration Second Year Visual Art

Glitch Art

Ive explored data-bending and data-moshing.

I started off by using Audacity, which I originally thought of as a simple audio editing platform, i discovered that you can import files as RAW data. Using any sort of file in your computer and converting that into audio, then editing that audio with effects, time stretching, etc. And then exporting the file as the original extension not as audio.

Meaning that a .mp4 or a .jpeg file can be edited as audio an exported as a video or photo file.

This is crazy, all files are 0 and 1’s. So a wav file and a pdf are in their core the same thing. This gave me some fun and experimental digital techniques.