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Video installation magazine article 

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

TONY OURSLER CAVE IN

So again I'm sitting watching the mans work and I'm thinking really? Has this person actually got fame and fortune through these pieces of work?

 But I do prefer this piece of work compared to the alcala subastas one, just because I seemed to think there was more of a message - the talking head thing on the chair look ilke someone who was building up worry about everything from what it was saying and the noise of everyone else was the people around it just over looking and ignoring what she was saying even if was simple things like 'matters in the air' to things like 'controlled explosions'

Maybe the video was about the stresses of everyday life for the modern man - and how we're just a mind and we can't really cope with all this information and things going around us and in our individual minds and we just feel alone with our thoughts and it feels like no one is listening but actually people are, and most of the time sharing the same thoughts as one another. 'a box cut deep, is deeper than anything' - might be how our thoughts can be over exaggerated.

but yeah, just what i thought the video was trying to project to the audience, that's the message  I got from it anyway! 

The theme…It seemed to me the theme was people and how we think - what everyday life brings our minds to think and feel. In my opinion it portrayed a great deal of loneliness and fear - the character looked so defenceless, from what it was saying sounded scared and worried.

I liked the artistic way Tony Oursler portrayed the emotional factors in this film (if thats what he meant to do anyway) I may use that as an inspiration for my film if he didnt because it seemed to make me connect and engage more with the character and try to work out what was going on…i thought it was subtly clever!

Compared to the other film of Tony ourslers I thought this one was much more unique and interesting mainly because it seemed to have a message to me and didn't seem a boring and pointless. It had a different camera frame too and didn't last as long (less is more).

From the research of Tony Ourslers film I have took inspiration from his unique and quirky ideas and may use my own variations in my own film project - even though i think there a tad dull and pretentious, I have slightly grown to kind of like them…but I still dislike them more than like them because his videos are just basically pieces of video with consists of mobile human features projected in luridly over-ripe color on a bulbous white sculpture, a doughnut shape in one case and configurations of two or three ovoids in the others. Conforming to the convex surfaces, giant mismatched eyes, fat lips and big snaggly teeth (no noses) make up weird, comical and oddly endearing faces. Eyes blink and swivel and mouths smile, frown and pucker while emitting barely audible words or nonsense syllables through nearby speakers. 

ta-da thats my magazine article on Tony Oursler.