Another assignment, this one might be interesting if you can read it with the right 'voice', hopefully I've got that right. The artwork is from Orlanda Uffre Deconstructing the Mind’s Preconceptions by Chris Damitio What Do You SEE???? This is the question that is asked in the Trinh T. Minh-ha experimental documentary Reassemblage. On the surface level, the film is about the women of Senegal and the way they live. This is, however, simply one layer on a veritable onion of a psychological experiment that Trinh is conducting on her audience. Using a diverse bag of tricks, she leads the viewer to multiple rabbit holes that are filled with self reflexive mirrors that not only examine where she is coming from and going to as a film maker, but also what we, as the audience, are seeing, thinking, and even feeling. Her unusual use of sound, light, color, editing, and narration provide the starting point for an experience that is more internal than external. This sensation of falling into the film itself, is far from the normal externalized viewing of the other that most of us associate with viewing a film.
Reassemblage
Reassemblage
Reassemblage
Another assignment, this one might be interesting if you can read it with the right 'voice', hopefully I've got that right. The artwork is from Orlanda Uffre Deconstructing the Mind’s Preconceptions by Chris Damitio What Do You SEE???? This is the question that is asked in the Trinh T. Minh-ha experimental documentary Reassemblage. On the surface level, the film is about the women of Senegal and the way they live. This is, however, simply one layer on a veritable onion of a psychological experiment that Trinh is conducting on her audience. Using a diverse bag of tricks, she leads the viewer to multiple rabbit holes that are filled with self reflexive mirrors that not only examine where she is coming from and going to as a film maker, but also what we, as the audience, are seeing, thinking, and even feeling. Her unusual use of sound, light, color, editing, and narration provide the starting point for an experience that is more internal than external. This sensation of falling into the film itself, is far from the normal externalized viewing of the other that most of us associate with viewing a film.