- She uses people and their emotions to narrate a story for both photography and film
- He own feelings and emotion have a powerful meaning and personal message. Its all highly emotional scenarios to provoke different social and psychological meaning.
2. How does the use of multi-screen installation in her work reflect narrative?
It reflects a narrative by allowing the audience to piece together their own interpretations instead of a specific story being dictated the viewer can relate and conclude other narratives.
3. What other photographers use film as an integral part of their work. List two with examples?
- Gregory Crewdson, an American photographer who takes inspiration from films and recreates his photography as a staged film set/scenes. They show drama with a cinematic element. As a photographer he takes influences from such films as: Night of the Hunter, Vertigo and Blue Velvet.
- Tim Walker, an English photographer who is a successful fashion photographer. Takes inspiration from film and has gone onto film directing. He made a short film called 'The Lost Explorer'.
4. Research three other Video artists and explain their working philosophy
* Andy Warhol who was a controversial visual artist in and explores the relationship between celebrities, artistic expressionism and advertisement. He was a film maker in the 1960s and he made a series of silent, black and white short films. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films, he was very experimental with film and devoted his energy around this art.
* Tim Burton is an American filmmaker and artist, and is most famous for his dark, quirky themed movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Alice in Wonderland. His work is expressed through artistic visualisation which he had discovered in his childhood and brought it into art and cinematic recreations to his films from imagination. His unique style of thematic fantasy life and emotional core that is captured in his work, creates a sense of feeling of being in a dream mode of his and takes you on a visual exagerrated story through any of his films.
* Alfred Hitchcock a British film maker and video Artist, he conveyed many techniques in the thriller and psychological genre of their time, he has a distinctive recognisable direction in film and often portrays anxiety, fear and empathy are evident features in his films. The idea of being harshly treated and wrongfully accused is frequently reflected in his films and this stems from his childhood growing up with a strict father.
5. Show an example of a specific gallery space or a site specific location where a video artist or filmmaker has created work specifically for that space and been influenced by it
King's cross station Harry Potter. Very iconic place and they even have a trolley sticking out of platform 9 3/4 there permanently as a tourist attraction.
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