DN – further terms
Today we watched a short film about Bill Viola’s work called Emergence.
(Other short work within Emergence were: Silent Mountain, Five Angels of the Millennium, The Quintet of the Astonished and Going Forth By Day).
Here are some of the themes discussed and alluded to:
the idea of representing presence
no longer around, echoes, silence
knowing something before and without words
using symbolism to convey thoughts
film time is not real time, not our time
simultaneous existence and representation
stirring without formal structure.
We also briefly looked at photomontage artist called Sean Hillen and his Irelantis work. Reconstructing history, retelling a narrative through multiple layered visual means.
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