Video installation 1

Video installation magazine article 

My two chosen directors are Tony Oursler and Sam Taylor-wood.

TONY OURSLER AT ALCALÁ SUBASTAS - 

The film is just basically fragments of various peoples facial parts moulded together to create some kind of being - a monster or alien like creature in my eyes. This was probably achieved using adobe aftereffects or photoshop. This dialogue of the film is just a person talking about random yet interesting things but the audience can't quite hear him kind of background noise and also he's used a classical genre of music to played while the creature is talking. Has he done this to frustrate the audience - that we're going to be interested in what this 'thing' is going to say but yet will not let us listen to words it has to say? I don't know, I just think he's done that so people play it more times therefore have more hits but each to their own opinion. 

modern art, a visionary, unique or just pretentious nonsense - in my opinion the last comment but what is Tony Oursler's purpose? I think maybe to scare or confuse the mind - the audience knows what is there but cannot figure out quite whats going on or why. 

The theme of his work I cannot really work out? Is he trying to put a message across, I don't know?! I cannot understand the purpose of the video or what some people call 'art'…but maybe that it self is the purpose that things to not have to have a purpose - why can't beings be, do or say something without it having to have any special message or meaning!  I mean its literally about nothing, nothing happens, nothing important is said, its just basically some eyes moving, a mouth talking but you can't hear what its saying because he's trying to be all artistic and unique with his classical music playing over the top so the audience thinks 'oh thats interesting a combination of music and someone talking i don't know how he came up with such a unique and original idea…oh wait he was probably just sitting at a bar having lunch and he was trying over hear someones conversation but he couldn't because someone was playing music and he thought oh this is thought provoking I'm going to base some of work my work around this idea' and that is (probably) how Tony Oursler came up with the idea - so calm down art enthusiasts, he not some visionary - he just some guy who has the same thoughts of everyday people but is just clever enough to make some 'art' out of it because pretentious go getters like you fool for it and make him money - I could create stuff like this but I have other things to do!

This has made me think about how I will make my film based around this video, and so far I do not wish to take inspiration from the video because to me it seems pointless and doesn't have anything appealing - just seems pretentious to me, but that might be me being naive.