Hilary Harris -Longhorns,1951

It’s my first time heard the name, a documentary filmmaker. Today we watched one of her work, Longhorns. I was confused when I watched this work, I can not understand the meaning, and at the beginning of the short film, I thought it’s a tree trunk. In Longhorns, we see him reveling in the interplay between the two mediums. Each shots in this work, I think it’s want to express something about nature. It’s very pure, clean and very abstract.

Hilary Harris-Highway,1958

Second film from Hilary Harris, I like this short film rather than the first one. Easy get the concepts and I really like the way shooting. Following the background music, each shot cuts rapidly. The movement in the film makes me exciting. Harris capture the automotive experience of urban space. It’s very alive.

 

Then Robin gave us an exercise need shoot 6×30 seconds ‘abstract ‘shots. Lisha, Xiaochen and I, three of us as a group. We were not sure what we gonna shoot and we just went outside. Then, we quickly com up with a idea: shooting human’s feet. Different people with different feet, with various shoes, their footstep might quick or slow, that what we want to shoot. It’s kind of a characteristic of each one. We shoot their feet with action and movements. I think we did well. I expect review it when editing.