video installation 4th and final

Video installation magazine article 

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

Sam Taylor- wood - Still Life

For me this has been my favourite out of all the video installations not just because its the last one I have left to watch also because it has made me think of all the possible things it could be representing or trying to portray…unlike the rest I feel like it actually has a meaning!

Still Life, I like the title i think it works very well, and triggers the thoughts of the audience (well it did with me anyway) what I was thinking the fruit and the pen - the fruit is a symbol of our lives on how were here, we live make an imprint with our thoughts and our ways and then we slowly die and wither and still leave a mark with our thoughts. The pen to me seemed like a symbol of our thoughts and how much of impact it makes, in my opinion even more so than us ourselves - because the things we do and say don't die - they live on without us and don't change and thats what the pen is meant to be symbolising and the stain of the fruit is our legacy of what is remembered of us! 

I also thought that the pen could represent time and how we change and think that we may change the world, opinions and people etc but really we don't and everything stays the same but the times that were born, grow, live and die - nothing changes just us and then everything continues without us, like we were never there.

It made me think of the whole relative time theory because when you look at the pen you don't know really how long time has gone by but then when you look at the fruit you can see how the effect of time has changed the fruit and the impact it has had - it could also mean how time changes matters for different things and people - age, emotions, lives etc! And the objects in the film are just representing different matters!

 For instance some peoples lives don't really change and it stays the same and they live long dull typically normal lives (the pen) and on the other hand you have people that live drastic constantly altering lives 'living life in the fast lane' (the fruit) 

I think the theme is life as its given away in the title really but if it didn't have that title I think I would of thought the same things it would of maybe been a tad more difficult to figure out!

The research from this film has helped me think about what I'm going to base my video project around and how am I going to portray it - I think id like to portray my visions in a similar way to what sam taylor wood has done here and use symbolism for representing my ideas into context. As I think its a subtle yet simultaneously impacting and clever way of projecting a vision to an audience!