Work and the like: 2011

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Ten Second Stare

I'm still not too sold on this one. It was one of my submissions for the Soap Factory's 10-second film festival. Not sure if it's been accepted yet or not, will find out on the 20th of June. It was made with a little Canon Powershot and edited with iMovie (which was a lot more frustrating to use than FCP for some reason).

When I decided to make this, I wanted to focus on a stare because I was interested in making a film that "watches" the viewer, so to speak. I think the audio is what's holding me back - when I decided to add it I was trying to suggest an ambiguous context from the which the viewer may begin to interpret or analyze the stare based on the randomly layered conversation. I feel like it may make create an epic sense that isn't quite delivered upon...but I kind of like that at the same time because, again, it adds this sort of irrelevant context that could be interpreted different ways.

Feels like more of a rough copy to me, perhaps an idea that could surpass a ten-second clip.

Piss Pump. Video, Urine Distiller. Dimensions Variable. 2011.

This device distilled urine into drinkable water, commenting on urine's renewable quality versus oil or gasoline. Ironically enough, weeks after finishing this project I came across some research out of an Ohio University that is actually distilling urine and working on using the hydrogen left over to run automobiles. Nice.