Have an excellent and safe time wherever you are. Happy New Year.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
alight - exhibition
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chroma943 - short video
Just finished probably the last film I'll create on my residency.
Chroma943 is based on the acrylic sketches and paintings I've been doing recently.
Chroma943 is based on the acrylic sketches and paintings I've been doing recently.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
exhibition at new year...
...if you're in Kunming.
I'll stick the poster and additional information here when I have it.
I also aim to have photos of the event, and the work in situ when it happens.
The exhibition will be called Alight, and will most likely have a joint opening/New Year party.
I've written the following text for it:
Alight
1. I alighted from the plane in Kunming on 11 October.
When we descended to Kunming it was dark... First I saw rivers and hills in monochrome outlines, then bridges and buildings, then roads and cars. I saw two bonfires burning on the edge of a field.
2. I accidentally alighted on a theme and a fascination.
What I saw [projected on paper through a small hole in the roof] was an upside-down image of the sky and the factory roof. My studio is a camera obscura.
3. My art came alight with colours.
I did an abstract sketch in my sketchbook with my various acrylics - then dragged the paint about with some toothpicks.
I'll stick the poster and additional information here when I have it.
I also aim to have photos of the event, and the work in situ when it happens.
The exhibition will be called Alight, and will most likely have a joint opening/New Year party.
I've written the following text for it:
Alight
1. I alighted from the plane in Kunming on 11 October.
When we descended to Kunming it was dark... First I saw rivers and hills in monochrome outlines, then bridges and buildings, then roads and cars. I saw two bonfires burning on the edge of a field.
2. I accidentally alighted on a theme and a fascination.
What I saw [projected on paper through a small hole in the roof] was an upside-down image of the sky and the factory roof. My studio is a camera obscura.
3. My art came alight with colours.
I did an abstract sketch in my sketchbook with my various acrylics - then dragged the paint about with some toothpicks.
kim jong-il
Re-posted from matt dalby journal:
Amid all the obvious links on Facebook to 'I'm So Ronery' and other Kim Jong-il frolics from Team America following the North Korean dictator's death I found myself remembering another film.
Not as funny or well-made as Team America, but most certainly more complex, compromised, brave, and disturbing. The film is a Danish documentary released in 2009 called The Red Chapel - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Chapel#cite_note-1
In the film a Danish documentarist Mads Brügger takes two Danish comedians of South Korean descent, Jacob Nossell and Simon Jul to North Korea on the pretext of producing a comedy show in the country, and documenting it. The actual intention is to see inside the secretive nation and reveal something about the country.
It has to be said that for the most part it fails in this aim. The director and comedians (of whom Nossell is developmentally challenged and refers to himself as 'spastic') are chaperoned everywhere, their film handed over every night for vetting, and they only get to see exactly what their hosts want. A great deal of commentary is able to get through since the censors reviewing the film can speak English but not Danish, but the cruelties alluded to can be found out about in more detail from other sources. Start here, there's some pretty chilling stuff - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
But there are striking and disturbing things about the film. The eerily empty streets for one. More so is a group of small children seen laughing and applauding. The grotesque aspect of this is that the children can be seen apparently watching each other and the adults in attendance to guage that they're reacting in the right way.
To see a child unable to laugh and react spontaneously, to appear afraid to act in an inappropriate way tells you everything you need to know about the regime.
On a forum thread elsewhere discussing Kim Jong-il's death someone said 'Good. I hope it hurt'. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it is worth remembering amongst 'I'm So Ronery' and the photo blog 'Kim Jong-il Looking At Things' that the man was not a harmless buffoon. He was a ruthless dictator who presided over mass starvation, mass imprisonment, collective punishment, the killing of physically defective infants, and forced prostitution among other horrors. No one should be sad at his passing.
Personally I love Team America, and Kim Jong-il Looking At Things, but I don't know how many North Koreans feel the same way.
Amid all the obvious links on Facebook to 'I'm So Ronery' and other Kim Jong-il frolics from Team America following the North Korean dictator's death I found myself remembering another film.
Not as funny or well-made as Team America, but most certainly more complex, compromised, brave, and disturbing. The film is a Danish documentary released in 2009 called The Red Chapel - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Chapel#cite_note-1
In the film a Danish documentarist Mads Brügger takes two Danish comedians of South Korean descent, Jacob Nossell and Simon Jul to North Korea on the pretext of producing a comedy show in the country, and documenting it. The actual intention is to see inside the secretive nation and reveal something about the country.
It has to be said that for the most part it fails in this aim. The director and comedians (of whom Nossell is developmentally challenged and refers to himself as 'spastic') are chaperoned everywhere, their film handed over every night for vetting, and they only get to see exactly what their hosts want. A great deal of commentary is able to get through since the censors reviewing the film can speak English but not Danish, but the cruelties alluded to can be found out about in more detail from other sources. Start here, there's some pretty chilling stuff - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
But there are striking and disturbing things about the film. The eerily empty streets for one. More so is a group of small children seen laughing and applauding. The grotesque aspect of this is that the children can be seen apparently watching each other and the adults in attendance to guage that they're reacting in the right way.
To see a child unable to laugh and react spontaneously, to appear afraid to act in an inappropriate way tells you everything you need to know about the regime.
On a forum thread elsewhere discussing Kim Jong-il's death someone said 'Good. I hope it hurt'. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it is worth remembering amongst 'I'm So Ronery' and the photo blog 'Kim Jong-il Looking At Things' that the man was not a harmless buffoon. He was a ruthless dictator who presided over mass starvation, mass imprisonment, collective punishment, the killing of physically defective infants, and forced prostitution among other horrors. No one should be sad at his passing.
Personally I love Team America, and Kim Jong-il Looking At Things, but I don't know how many North Koreans feel the same way.
Monday, December 05, 2011
jiaoling lu - video
It was the weekend, I was bored.
Yesterday I shot a load of video around the apartment, today I edited it into this new film - Jiaoling Lu. That's Jiaoling Road where my apartment is if that helps.
I'm happy with it, it seems snappier than 'I learnt colour'.
More on my residency here - http://mattdalbyjournal.tumblr.com/ - and about 943 Studio where I'm in residence here - http://www.943studio.cn/
Yesterday I shot a load of video around the apartment, today I edited it into this new film - Jiaoling Lu. That's Jiaoling Road where my apartment is if that helps.
I'm happy with it, it seems snappier than 'I learnt colour'.
More on my residency here - http://mattdalbyjournal.tumblr.com/ - and about 943 Studio where I'm in residence here - http://www.943studio.cn/
Sunday, December 04, 2011
i learnt colour - video
Since I've posted this everywhere else it seemed santiago's should have it too.
I started filming late in the second week of my residency here in Kunming at 943 Studio (http://www.943studio.cn/). My original intention was to combine everyday scenes from the apartment and studio with footage from around the city.
Most of what I shot early on was contrived, pedestrian, and literal. Only the footage shot while walking seemed to have anything about it.
After a while I stopped filming because I was just repeating myself.
I started again when I started noticing the light in the apartment and at the studio. I filmed a lot - suddenly I had a subject that interested me and that could draw together my other bits of film.
I finally started editing on 24 November and finished on 2 December after a few false starts.
Although the editing software on the phone I shot and edited with is basic any shortcoming in the film is entirely down to my lack of experience and skill.
For more on my residency don't forget my journal - http://mattdalbyjournal.tumblr.com/
Thanks to visa limitations I'm back in the UK in early January. In the meantime I may do more filming.
I started filming late in the second week of my residency here in Kunming at 943 Studio (http://www.943studio.cn/). My original intention was to combine everyday scenes from the apartment and studio with footage from around the city.
Most of what I shot early on was contrived, pedestrian, and literal. Only the footage shot while walking seemed to have anything about it.
After a while I stopped filming because I was just repeating myself.
I started again when I started noticing the light in the apartment and at the studio. I filmed a lot - suddenly I had a subject that interested me and that could draw together my other bits of film.
I finally started editing on 24 November and finished on 2 December after a few false starts.
Although the editing software on the phone I shot and edited with is basic any shortcoming in the film is entirely down to my lack of experience and skill.
For more on my residency don't forget my journal - http://mattdalbyjournal.tumblr.com/
Thanks to visa limitations I'm back in the UK in early January. In the meantime I may do more filming.
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