the lecture (sorry, symposium) last week finally felt like we were making progress and answering mostly useful question that were related to the subject. of course, the lecture was last monday, the day which i am now regarding as the worst day of my life so far (don’t ask me why, it’s been a shit week) so i have blacked out most of what happened that day. thank god i took notes in the lecture or i would literally not have remembered anything. it’s been a tough week for me and i am trying to catch up on everything now so rather than my usual meaningful posts, i’m sorry to say that this week you’ll be getting some simple points and recaps. but enjoy anyhow and feel lucky that i’m even ok enough to be doing this.
Are K-films art for arts sake?
yes and no. they change the way we see things. repeating films or certain objects/things forces you to notice them in ways you wouldn’t have before. gain a new understanding.
our sketch films are observational abstract – looking at regular objects in abstract ways. by taking the familiar and making it unfamiliar we see it differently. see the whole world differently.
documentary wants to engage with the world and change your understanding of the topic. are k-films documentary? do they provide and explicit engagement with the world?
making a K-film (not just watching them) change the way you think and do things. forces us to rethink : relations between things, our roles as makers, our roles as viewers, narration, all films.
self structuring K-films
interactivity is offering new possibilities for audiences. how different can films be when using the same footage? it’s all based on individual choices (eg., cutting up the story from first week in editing media texts). each person decides on the length, clusters, repetitions, links. billions of different options, there is no canonical fixed order. every single person would describe the same thing differently because they all see it differently.
you don’t need to define something to deconstruct it.
interpreting experimental films
experimental films are filmed AND interpreted differently – it all relies on the interpretation. K-films use abstraction for greater interpretation.
don’t make the films for a specific audience. just make and let them interpret. you can’t control what people will do or how they will interpret your content.