- Images and film together
- Try reversing the film/sound
- Slow the voices down to see what effect that gives
- create my own conversations from segments of other conversations
- try filming on a roundabout
- film getting on and off the bus
- down and up the stairs
- film out of the back window
- reward the audience with getting off the bus, a narrative
Michael Holden
I was told to look at Holden due to his coloum in the gardian about conversations entitles 'All ears'. I find it so interesting! I like the idea of overhearing these sentences said by people that are kind of taken completely out of context and just left there on there own to make of them what you want.
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Michael Holden's All ears
'I had a week of it, scuttling about, laughing at me. So I went to the pound shop and got some traps'
All ears. Illustration: Andy Watt
There's a lot of stuff in the ether lately about trying to vanquish animals. Maybe it's a
recession thing, that our confidence is down as a species. Perhaps we're not the
evolutionary big dogs we thought we were. Certainly the man sat by me in the pub was
struggling with his status as an apex predator.
Man 1 "I had a week of it, scuttling about, laughing at me. So I went to the pound shop
and got some traps."
Man 2 (feeding a child in a pram but listening in) "You wanna try peanut butter."
Man 1 "Well the cheese didn't work. I wanted one of them old-fashioned traps, you
know?"
Man 3 "Your classic mousetrap – bang!"
Man 1 "Exactly, but they didn't have any, and it turns out these things I've bought are
for rats, so the mice don't trigger it."
Man 2 "Peanut butter."
Man 1 "I went back to the shop and in the end the fella gives me these glue traps, says
they're the ones. I've spent about 11 quid in there now, and this is the pound shop."
Man 3 "How do they work?"
Man 1 "Humanely, they say. But this is the thing. In the morning the thing's just laying
there, looking up at me, its little feet stuck fast in this glue, like when you get a CD stuck
to a magazine, and it was shivering."
Man 3 "So what do you do, kill it?"
Man 1 (wincing at the memory) "I couldn't. I had to peel it off."
Man 3 "And then what?"
Man 1 (appalled with himself) "I chucked it in a bush and walked to work."
Man 3 (in the "I told you so" style) "Peanut butter …"
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Melanie Manchot
Melanie Manchot is a London-based artist who explores portraiture as a performative and participatory practice. Working with photography, film and video, her projects often propose constructed events or situations in public spaces and from engaging explorations into our individual and collective identities.
Kiss, 2009, 16mm Film, 10'18", Stereo Sound
''‘Kiss’ is a 16mm film, which concentrates on one of the gestures most intrinsic to cinematic language: the kiss. The work is filmed as an uncut ten-minute observation of a seemingly endless kiss on the topdeck of a London double-decker bus. Disengaged from their immediate environment, a young couple begins an intimate game of desire. The camera follows waves of desire, at times verging on pain and aggression then again full of joy and lightness. Kiss forms part of a trilogy of 16mm films each of which focuses on one gestures that occurs between two people temporarily isolated within the public environment they find themselves in. Each of the films is based on a real life experience and is reconstructed with non-actors in the original locations, consciously playing on the ambiguity between a documentary mode and a staged event''. - http://www.melaniemanchot.net/category/kiss/
I couldn't actually find the video of this, but from the screen shots i can see and see the intense emotion from this couple. The simplicity of the scene adds to the normality yet fairy tale like atmosphere.
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