JessWett (Body and Space) cool

For our latest project, I've decided to use movie form in considering body in space. Since we were to take an aspect from our last project and combine it with a bit of flavor from a film, I decided to let my imagination roam and to look at "Un chien andalou" which I mentioned was a surreal film, at times abstract and very cool (and short, check it out on utube.) I took the abstract element from this film to work into my own

...and so...

I was at first very interested in working with a clip I had filmed of distortion and imagination with glass. The video was a medium shot of liz taking a wine glass filled with water and holding it up to her eyes and lips, looking this way and that. At moments I zoomed in, and in those moments, when you could no longer tell that it was liz's eyes that were those abstract shapes behind the glass, were the most interesting.

So, in filming, I have decided to work with glass in space and its properties, exploring the distortion and therefor abstraction it can make. In working with my last piece, I used the contrast of color and sepia as well as a barrier (aka the web) to relate my tone. I am planning on working these aspects into my project by using a transparent barrier of clouded glass (see pictures) and then showing the colorful world of glasses behind it. I haven't yet nailed out all the details, but suffice it to say there will be some abstraction and exploration of body in the space of glass distortions.