Tuesday, April 24, 2012
This Must Be the Place
These series of videos were pretty amazing. I think the audience is for the curious, the explorers and the educated. Since these videos are meant to be watched in a series I am interested in how the each person makes their home regular. The filmmakers are interested in the images that show repetition like the chairs, pictures, lamps... there are many freeze frames on imagines that repeat themselves. This forced me to think about how when items, thoughts and ideas are repeated they become home. Repetition like the cleaning of objects, the making of hamburgers and the taking of the same pictures create home.
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I like this idea you brought up of repetition--it kind of reminded me of how "spectacles" at the worlds fair would be on display, and would have to repeat what they do "at home" for spectators hour after hour. This made me wonder--how authentic do you think profiles are? What changes when the interior becomes exterior, when the private becomes public?
ReplyDeleteThe film makers even have a sort of repetition in how they present these different people and their homes--the style of each piece is very similar (i.e. stillness captured through snapshots of the "home environment," music, pacing, etc. ). This seems to make a sort of equal footing for each different piece. Do you think this makes them seem too similar? Even boring? Or is it a successful tactic?