Abstraction Screening

 I currently have no ideas for the abstraction project. It seems as if it might be a challenge for me. Even though I currently feel this way, many of these different videos were very inspiring and interesting to look at. The ''Pipiliotti Rist'' interview was very intriguing to watch. Some people would consider her quite odd or crazy. But, I find her admirable about how she describes her thought process and how passionate she is. She embodies abstraction not only through her art,  but through her aesthetics, thoughts, the way she talks, the way she walk. She herself is ABSTRACTION and she is not afraid of that or to explore that. She is not afraid of what people who think she's odd because we are all odd and she understands that. I like that even though people would look at her videos and say that they are random but in fact they are quite intentional. Her explanation of one her pieces that ended up being in times square in 2000 makes sense to me. In the interview she is explaining how it represents a person who feels secluded. This could be feeling stuck in the ways that society might perceive us. This is why there is a glass and we can see a women looking stuck and wiping her face across the glass because she feels like she has to conform or stay in these ''boxes'' that are pushed on us since birth. She may  seem ''mad'' to some. But, she may just justify the argument that there is a correlation between madness and creativity. Her usage of color throughout her projects seem to be bright but dimmed, have a dreamlike essence to them and grittiness to it . It's like you are stepping into her dream state while looking at her videos. Another video that I would like to talk about "Eisenstein's Methods of Montage Explained''. In this video different types of montage's are described. I noticed that  different montage's set a different tone by the pace or even by where the camera is placed. For example, both of the metric montage's created a intensity with the shots and the way that the maker of those films sequenced them together. It as if the shots are on a music score and each shot is a note that being played in a cadence. While, the tonal montage's were more focused on setting a atmosphere of different types of emotion through the shots. If look at the montage from ''In the Mood For Love'' the shots are shot a way where it feels like we are invading there privacy which  sets a different tone than the rapid intensity that the metric montage might set.