THE WORK OF SAM TAYLOR WOOD
1 List two specific key relationships between Sam
Taylor Wood's photography and film work?
Sam Taylor Wood has a lot about her within her work and a lot of it is very personal. It also involves her thoughts on how she sees the world. She uses film and photography because sculpture didn’t work for her in the same way as she thought it was just something to hide behind.
her work reflect narrative?
Sam Taylor Wood’s first multi-screen installation was called “killing Time” and was created in 1994. This was created by her going to the opera and seeing how thing were totally different on and off stage, as when people were off stage they were nervous and had to kill time. It is showing within the two screens how the backstage and front stages do not relate and it has the use of more than one character to act this out. This reflects narrative as it shows the differences and tells the story between the two screens. Another example is one of her multi-screens called “travesty of mockery” which was created in 1995 and this shows the interaction within the two screens and the two people having an argument and going from one screen to another and it makes it look a lot more real.
integral part of their work. List two with
examples?
John Ford is a documentary photography who also uses film in his work to document situations such as starving children. He is best known for the film “the American West” but has also created and directed films such as “the Searchers” and “grapes of a wrath.”
Larry Clark is a well known American photographer and film director he uses both photography and film as part of his work as he created the book “Tulsa” in 1971 and he is known for the film “kids” in 1995. These are both of the same genre and show he has done film and photography.
Robert Frank is a Swiss photographer and he is most well known for his book of images called “The Americans” in 1959. After 1959 he turned to cinematography and created his first film in 1959 called “Pull my daisy.”
4 Research three other Video artists and explain
their working philosophy
Steve Bendelack is a video artist and has directed films and several different series and programmes, one example of this is Mr Bean’s Holiday, taking this film we can see that it is obviously a comedy and so his working philosophy for this film would have been to make people laugh. He has used humour a lot in this film and this would be a type of genre that was used within it.
Steven Spielberg is a film maker, producer and director and has won several awards for his films. He is most well known for Jaws, Back to the future, ET and Schindler's List. From looking at these films we can see that he has a different working philosophy to Steve Bendelack as these films are aimed at an older audience and are of a more sci-fi genre.
James Wan in a film director and is most famous for Paranormal Activity, Saw and Insidious, he had the ideas and concepts for insidious whilst he was making Saw and then had the opportunity to then do insidious and he says it is “creepy and atmospheric” he also said that he created these films because of a “messed up childhood” and didn’t want insidious to be like Saw. He wanted to create a movie with plots, twists and turns.
site specific location where a video artist or film maker has created work
specifically for that
space and been influenced by it.
Matilda is a film that was made in 1996 in USA and is based on the book Matilda by Roald Dahl the film was directed by Danny DeVito. There are several different locations for this film but it is all based on the book. The locations are 15811 Youngwood Dr, Whittier, California, USA, Altadena, California, USA, Arcadia, California, USA, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA, Mayfield Senior School - 500 Bellefontaine Street, Pasadena, California, USA (hospital where Matilda is born)Pasadena, California, USA, Third Street & Pine Avenue, Long Beach, California, USA. The types of locations he chose had to fit with the characters of the people living there. For example Miss Honey who was the nice school teacher had a pretty little cottage surrounded with flowers where as miss Trunchbull had the big house who shows she was more dominant and had power over people.
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