After a seminar on the practice of film maker Roger Thorp in which we discussed the 1960s experimental films of artists such as Bruce Baillie and Kenneth Anger, I have begun to experiment with digital film. Much in the same way that I create a collage or installation, I sourced footage from popular media such as Andy Warhol films and clips from sci-fi epic Star Wars - something that is easily done in the age of the internet, the YouTube generation and post post-modernism. Ripping footage from its original source, I used simple layering techniques to create what I see as ambiguous beauty, color fields and imagery dancing around one another. The process felt more fluid, more subtle than a collage or installation, and the finished pieces more elegant - less obvious perhaps than when a physical collection of images or objects is placed before me. Although the addition of the music, although ambient, makes the work less fine art and more music video, there is always the possibility of muting the sound in certain contexts. Roger Thorp's feedback was positive, though a suggestion was made to explore further editing techniques. I plan to do this gradually, though as with much of the rest of my practice I enjoy the results of an intentional primitivism or lack of technical process, I find that if done right this is the way in which I produce my best work.
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