Video Analysis and Interpretations

Copy Shop - by Virgil Widrich (2001)

I focused on more of how the film itself was cut, rather than the narrative itself. I believe the reason why I did this is because I noticed how intricate things were, From the cutting, editing of the compositions, the use of grain and black and white to simulate a older time period.
If I did have to delve into the narrative, I believe its going to our lives and how they may interweave with one another, and how we are put in this loop, and overtime we begin to realize this loop. We see our copies. From these copies, there is a part of us where we wish to break free. And become our own originality.

Meshes of the Afternoon

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I felt very unsettled by the music, and how it was composed. As well as the entire set up of the very first few scenes inside the house.
I was shocked to see the only human facial recongition we see finally was later on into the video, the first half focused on tight camera angles, shadows, clothing that were dark, to simulate moving shadows that weren't flat.
Copy Shop was influenced by this short film by Maya Deren. We see how different copies of the same character are meshing with each other.
Overall this film is quite the experience, we are lead to several outcomes. So it should be watched until complexion.

Mothlight

With this video, we ask ourselves what exactly is video. We know that there is no clear cut as what a video entails, we just like to think of what it should entail. Conforming our expression of the artform itself.
So when I look at this video I remembered how video is just zillions of frames, put in a streamline format, where one comes after the other in a sequence. If they are more frames, we begin to see motion.
Motion, that is really all this is. Depicting motion, either slow, fast, reversed, or forward. Colorless, or colored.
When others may look at this they just assume that it is a video, because it is what our brain is telling us what it is. As things get closer to the climax, seeing less of the copied characters, we are finally seeing the end to the film.

Simbiosis Carnal

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This film is on the basis of intimacy, and also when a woman loses her virginity, but also when two people come together to make love.
Woman such as myself are told a long time that are bodies are like gardens.
And also as society tells women to conform to being the mother role, the housewife.
There's a lot more I can discuss on the narrative, but imagery tells us how social society is telling us who to be, who to choose to love, and more.
The animation is vibrant, focusing on reds and blues, the "colors of gender".
At the root of things, it's exploring of the root of everything, from cell to human.
Overall this short animation is depicting the intimacy between two beings.

Siyurka