The Role of A Lifetime.
Created By: Deimanitas Markevicivs
Dated Created: 2003
Write a brief description, which explains what happens in the video:
Its explaining or expressing his personal experiences and relationships between memories, Political history in relations of Social changes. He does this through an unfamiliar context borrowed from experiences of this and it is constructed a network of subtle associations between distinct sets of material.
Observations about the piece:
I personally think that it comes a cross as him wanting to represent freedom from what I could gather together from watching the video.
It wasn't engaging or very eye catching, the narrative wasn't clear enough for myself or the peers around me at the time; I couldn't exactly understand what he was trying to explain. Discrimination? Poverty?
To further add, the audio wasn't clear, the music if there was any didn't seem to have much of an impact of the visuals.
The visual were very good as it seems like the flash backs were captured during a war and its not easy to achieve such images he did.
Projection.
Created By: Andrea Fraser
Date Created: 2008
Write a brief description, which explains what happens in the video :
A Psychotherapy session in which the viewer is addressed as the Therapist, Patient and Voyeuristic.
The technical sense is viewed as the session be displayed as a moving image being diverted to different side of the room, you as the viewer will need to turn around back and forth to get the understanding of the whole concept.
You as the viewer feel like your actually part of the session as the patient/therapist is looking directly at the camera, so this has an effect of feeling as though she is actually having a conversation with you.
Overall this is called 'Psychoanalysis' - Unconscious transfer of desires or transcripts of real psychotherapy consultations adapted into two monologues.
Observation: As the whole concept of this video was to feel like you were being spoken to, it was definitely engaging as at some point. You would catch yourself speaking as if you actually feel like your in the session yourself. At some stages, you would feel about of place because the prospective would change, as well as the mood because it would change to the woman counselling you, to you listening and taking in what she has to say. So you would feel as though your being out on the spot as you wouldn't expect such a drastic chance to take place.
Visually, it was rather simple but it was definitely eye catching as it made to want to sit down and see what happens next or wonder what she is talking and why is it set that way. The audio was clear, very understandable as it should be and loud enough for everyone to hear.
