Today I had a very good meeting with Jean
Marie in which we mainly discussed the new video I had sent to her. We
discussed that the film needs either subtitles or me speaking English or that
it can be a combination of both.
We discussed that I should show both
paintings and video work in Berlin. Also, rather than creating two or three
other films during the next few months I will rather focus on this one video
and experiment with it.
The first step will be to take one segment,
the scene in which I talk about the non-existence of god (the carpet scene) and
try to do the piece with an English voice and then again with subtitles and
then we look at it…..and decide what is better.
I mean, some of the segments of the film
will need subtitles anyways, like for example my sister’s voice introducing our
grandfather in German, I will need to put subtitles under that part.
We also discussed that the transition from
black and white to colour is too much and that I should try to desaturate the
colour parts, to pull some of the colour out in those areas.
Jean Marie also suggested that I prolong
the scene with my grandfather’s projection on my body.
Jean Marie recommended me to watch ‘The
March’ by Abrahams, Agnes Verda’s work, Harun Farocki, Der Ausdruck der Haende
and Workers Leaving the Factory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokRfl8VqWg, for
experimental for superimposing Man Ray’s Emak Bakia, and in regards to two
channel videos to watch Shirin Neshat’s Turbulence,
Nina Katchadourian ,
Mary Lucier, Douglas Gordon. In terms of painters she suggested I look at
Gustav Metzger’s work (what an amazing artist, I cannot believe I haven’t seen
his work before. I just read about him and looked at his work and see that
Anselm Kiefer has ‘borrowed’ some ideas from him….) and Robert Rauschenberg.
It was a
great meeting with a very good feedback and suggestions for next steps in my
work, I am excited to go back to the film now, translate all my German texts
and experiment more with it……
Thank you for
pushing me! I appreciate your honesty, for giving me the space to experiment
with video and for helping me to improve my work.
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