installation!

(before i do the actual blog assignment, i'm going to indulge in the blogginess of this blog. i hate talking in front of people i don't know. and i stumbled and stuttered and misspoke my way through my presentation this morning but i was really excited to have learned so much about mekas. he. rocks.)

I'm really excited about the installation. Honestly, I was hoping to work on Free steak but that's more because i thought too much about free steak. i like to think about it as a film statement (although this interpretation applies in theory more than practice). the animals would be frozen in plastic frames and have images over them. like film frames themselves, they're just moments of life preserved and frozen in plastic. played over and over again.

but i'm excited about ours, too! i was impressed by abz's idea of having people walk through a tunnel with bizarre objects around. he said he wasn't really committed to every single part of it so i'm pretty stoked to be able to add my two cents to the installation.

I was thinking about his tunnel idea and about a curtain i made for the Cucalorus office. (next time you're there, check it out, it's in the front office window) it's made from a 35mm print that dan told me to get rid of. i kept it and made the curtain out of it. it hung on my bedroom wall for a while but it works better over a big light source. anywho, i was thinking that it would be kind of cool to make the tunnel or at least parts of the tunnel like that. it could be very dark or be full of colors, depending on the lighting and what film we use.

as for the fire and water, i have to admit i don't entirely understand the set up. probably because i was philosophizing about plastic-covered animals while he was presenting. but i know one thing, i hope i don't entirely understand it ever.