What if you watch a film and whenever you pause
it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over
6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five
minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological
thriller; a student project which was seen as a 'mission impossible' by many
people but eventually proved possible! ( via
Clementine )
Post-paint-dance animation projectkumeger.com
A video by Gary Hill. Made in
1978.
"Using a fictional interactivity of the artist's body on the image,
Mouthpiece is a humorous simulation of a performance video. A black and white
recording is superimposed on a series of pictures. The simulation of action is
produced by this transparency and the effect of reality given by the recording
in real time.
The fiction is constructed along the lines of turning
fantasy into derision. A series of identical mouths - red, pulpous lips -- files
past in a column. A recording of the artist's mouth appears in the background,
kissing the images. But the rate at which the series files past accelerates, in
defiance of the kiss, which can no longer land on the pictures. The artist then
reacts by pursing his lips and blowing out a "brbrbr" sound, which seems to make
the pictures file past even faster, mixing them up, as if the sound waves had
taken over the very substance of the image. Confronted with this playful lunacy,
the artist sticks out his tongue in a humorous onomatopoeia of disgust. Then,
these sequences file past a second time. These three phases give a real time
simulation of the interaction between two levels of the image and between sound
and image.
The mouth was a recurring subject, in various approaches to
communication, in videos in the 70's: In Primary (1978), Gary Hill breaks down
the mouth's movements during the articulation of the words "blue, red, green".
In Lip Sync (1969), Bruce Nauman plays with the synchronisation of the images of
lips and the voice off by the repetition of the title. In Open Book (1974), Vito
Acconci invites spectators to enter his wide-open mouth." - Thérèse Beyler
Primary by Gary Hill
Made in 1978.
"Primary is a
performance video in which the artist represents and breaks down the movements
of the articulation of the spoken language by associating a colour with each
shape adopted by the mouth when pronouncing the monosyllabic word that
corresponds to it. The three words on the tape are: 'Blue, red,
green'.
Primary was one of the first tapes to use spoken text as an
element for structuring images and the work itself. The Equal Time (1979) and
Black / White / Text (1980) tapes, amongst others, were also to use spoken text,
but in a more complex manner.
Primary does not really analyse
pronunciation; it places speech back into its context and language into a
physical process. Gary Hill represents the physical properties of action and
sound in the same manner in Full Circle and Soundings, and electrical energy in
Electronic Linguistic.
The process in Primary is taken up again in the
Primary Speaking installation and the resulting tape. The time taken to
pronounce each syllable determines the staccato rate at which images unfold; the
subjects of these correspond to the words pronounced and the abstract ideas
expressed. The test is an existential search, querying, in turn, the idiomatic
expressions of the language, the individual choices, identity, questioning and
elements of response. These elements are put on an equivalent basis with the
syllables according to their function in the construction of a future era." -
Thérèse Beyler
