I've revised my "embodying savagery" video study inspired by Fred Moten's talk for an upcoming Women's and Gender Studies symposium called Assemblages this Saturday, Feb 27 at UNCG. It will be part of a multiply layered durational performance installation with several other artist-scholars, and will be looped along with a couple other series of short videos of the body. (I'll also be doing a performative interaction with the audience that I'll post about later.) If possible, I'd love feedback by Friday!
more than less than (in process) from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
Questions:
(1) What do you think of how I use the ethnographic images here? Is the connection between the images and the movement/body clearer/more effective now?
(2) How do you feel about the overall trajectory and length of the work? Does the ending get too layered and muddy? Any cuts you'd change?
(3) Any other thoughts or feedback? (Anything you miss from the last version?)
more than less than (in process) from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
Questions:
(1) What do you think of how I use the ethnographic images here? Is the connection between the images and the movement/body clearer/more effective now?
(2) How do you feel about the overall trajectory and length of the work? Does the ending get too layered and muddy? Any cuts you'd change?
(3) Any other thoughts or feedback? (Anything you miss from the last version?)
(1) What do you think of how I use the ethnographic images here? Is the connection between the images and the movement/body clearer/more effective now?
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying the connection now! I like that the initial image of the book (maybe slightly too fast) and arm carry me into a state of imagination. The layering of the images at the same angle as the shadows really helps me to see the relationship between them. The shadows and sounds create a layer to the images that I would not have imagined if I just saw the images themselves and the images give a focused context to the shadows and sounds.
(2) How do you feel about the overall trajectory and length of the work? Does the ending get too layered and muddy? Any cuts you'd change?
It feels very effective as is!
(3) Any other thoughts or feedback? (Anything you miss from the last version?)
I'd have to watch the other version, but for now I just wanted to give you some quick feedback because I know it's going up Saturday. I really don't think it's missing anything!
(1) What do you think of how I use the ethnographic images here? Is the connection between the images and the movement/body clearer/more effective now?
ReplyDeleteI like the connections! I feel like there is a triangulation that I am getting more now between your body, your shadows, and the ethnographic images. I like it. Feels more clear to me now.
(2) How do you feel about the overall trajectory and length of the work? Does the ending get too layered and muddy? Any cuts you'd change?
I like the length and trajectory of the work. Feels perfect for me as a viewer. At the very beginning, when the first ethnographic image comes, I was wondering whether it was supposed to be smooth or abrupt. Something about the timing of entry and exit of some of the ethnographic images feels like it could be smoother. I feel like some of them are spot on - in terms of sharp cuts in and out that are on a really nice rhythm. I don't think it's about either sharp cuts or long fades in and out, cuz it seems like you have both going on depending on the mood. I just feel like there could be a little refining regarding the entry and exit of ethnographic images. Especially that first one.
(3) Any other thoughts or feedback? (Anything you miss from the last version?)
I'm not missing anything from the last version. It's great!
This is Babli's feedback, she was having trouble posting:
ReplyDelete1) What do you think of how I use the ethnographic images here? Is the connection between the images and the movement/body clearer/more effective now?
I really like the three elements- the set up is quite clear to me from the beginning, though I find that the body images stand out a lot from the beginning (cause ethnographic images as well as shadows are black and white. You may intend this "standing out"- at the same time I notice that later on, when there is more layering your moving body does not stand out as much but is more interacting with the ethnographic images - for lack of a better word "at eye level"- So it kind of goes - to me - from a juxtaposition of the three elements during which there is some "imbalance because the body stands out the most to an interaction between the three where all three elements seem more "levelled" to me.
(2) How do you feel about the overall trajectory and length of the work? Does the ending get too layered and muddy? Any cuts you'd change?
I like the length and trajectory. I do not find that the end gets too layered- if anything the opposite (if I had to give an opinion I would say I prefer the layering at the end to the beginning, where I feel the body dominates)- BUT- IF you like the body dominating in the beginning, I might consider giving me more time with your body at the very start (the pan of the arm) before it blurs into the world of the ethnographic images and movements.
(3) Any other thoughts or feedback? (Anything you miss from the last version?)
No, I prefer the images without the book as is in this version.