Allegra

I had hoped to post a link to watch my film project, "A Tavola," on youtube this week however I have run into a small problem. It seems the hard drive of the school computer I used was cleaned out and that was the only copy of the film. But fingers crossed things will be resolved and you can watch my film soon.

I quess then it is time to move on to the next project. During the last few weeks I became very excited about working with film and want to continue exploring with this medium. I also had been bouncing around some ideas about body on film in a more direct way than I had used in the last project--basically focusing on only the body and how it relates to the camera in motion. One of the artists we discussed in seminar, Wodiczko, projected of body parts (hands, faces, etc.) onto monuments while the person spoke about issues such as murder, gang violence, sexual assualt, and other difficult and often private subjects. I was fascinated by his use of film as well as the exchange between the personal--the stories--and the pubic--the monuments. Florence is certainly a city with many monuments and as a visitor here I spend a lot of time in these public places.

On our field trip to Roma with all our explorations of catacombs and places of housing the dead I thought a lot about how our society now buries and commemorates our dead--and what it is about death that makes it so hard to talk about. How does Wodiczko approach this gap between a need to share our experiences as well as the discomfort talking about them. This weekend I made two mind maps that are linked here. First, about gesture from my last project and how I can continue to work with it and second about public v. private. With those I am now ready to start with some video fun!