Cinema and the Gay Undercurrent

January 18th, 2011

Darrell is speaking about cinema and the gay undercurrent in older films. Continually using a sort of island image elevation construction like he did before, but not having them represent islands necessarily. Film-to-digital transfer is broken, using the “digital” aesthetic, the islands will be pixelated. Considering making small 2nd buttons that would divide the image back into parts and recomposed. In one closed room, he wants to have a projection bouncing off of mirrors that are placed through with a the strategy of making a “kaleidoscope” effect that would be referencing data-moshing effects in real time. This being a metaphor for the broken perspective and alternate readings of cinema text.

Critique:
Miranda Lichtenstein: Between the buttons and the islands; it seems redundant. Why the usage of buttons to make an image?

Craig Kalpakjian: I feel you need to actually experiment with the materials and to stop moving in your through process. Test these elements out before asking someone to pay for them. The amount of buttons as a budge”. And especially since you haven’t experimented with the prisms.