Reading Response #9?

1. Benning's work is related/similar to the Riot Grrl subculture in that it captured the whole do it yourself and stand up for your artistic beliefs. Most of the work from these underground movements was made with low tech equipment similar to the punks and there "lets use what we got" mentality. The Riot Grrl subculture is different from the punks in that they focus on women empowerment and the ideas of finding yourself as a women. The punks were more male influenced and dominated.

2. Benning's work is described as visual essays by Milliken because its basically what they are. A story written out with images from her own life and fiction based pieces. All different mediums are used within in order to make the film more personal for her and allows the viewer to get deeper into the story.

3. The term sculpture has changed over the years into a much more open classification allowing for many new, different types of constructions into the sculpture genre. More common now-adays are installations which I think his projections would be classified into more. Every artform evolves into a newer version of what it was, thats all that the art of sculpture is doing.

4. Minimalist sculpture is post modern because it focuses more on the viewers experience with the work instead of a stamped on meaning from the artist. The lack of caring in the work leaves it a post modern work.

5. Both artist use the human body as the object of their art. The attention is focused on their reactions to the physical endurance of using their own bodies.

6. The mode of film practice refers to the specific working style within the avant garde community. Classical Hollywood cinema, surrealism, and French new wave are all forms of non-experimental processes of film practice.

7. The main difference between experimental art and gallery art is the availability to the audiences. Experimental films have been and are still being shown in small venues, classrooms, and film festivals. Now with netflix and the Internet, experimental art is available in all types of forms. Gallery art is location specific which holds back most viewers from specific galleries.

Reading Response #7

- I was unable to find the Tribulation 99 article by Michael Zryd in the Reserves but I would still enjoy doing a response to the film. I'm sure the article talked about how most of the students were confused, as was I, the first time I viewed it. I love found footage movies and am about to start creating mine for 6x1. It's hilarious when media from one angle is used to convey a completely different story. The fact that this one is so long and plays with the government and the mass amounts of controversy that surround it, is what makes Tribulation 99 such a great found footage. With the addition of aliens being the reasoning for most of the incidents happening, it creates a mass confusion about the truth of the film. The first viewing I had may have been in your class my freshman year, not quite sure but I know I had no idea what I had just witnessed. A further explanation after the film helps but what is truly needed is a multiple viewings. This was only my second viewing in three years but I found it much more entertaining now that I could perceive what was actually happening. Blaming everything on alien activity is hilarious and entertaining at the same time because you want there to be some truth in it. Tribulation 99 is fun, I hope to see it again soon.

1. Once again I couldn't find the article this is pertaining too but I can make an educated guess on what Arthur is speaking of. Realest usage of found footage would be using the footage to imply some reality in the imagery, probably not taking it too far out of context. Figurative use would imply more of what was going on in Tribulation 99, referencing the footage to a completely opposite idea.

2. Three similarities between the No Wave/Punk film movement and the punk music scene would be first and most prominent, would be the idea of simply picking up and instrument/camera and start playing. Each scene would also help each other with the creation of each others projects, musicians as actors and filmmakers could make videos for the bands. Thirdly as technology goes, the no wave group had their super 8 cameras which weren't made for mass movie production and the musicians had their slide guitars.

3. The five characteristics of the modernist paradigm would be the superiority of high art of modern culture, medium specificity, autonomy of art, smooth camera movement, and super impositions.

4. ehhhhh

5. What Ahwesh means by the rejecting the "aesthetics of mastery" is that she doesn't agree with the following of the classical narrative structure and follows her own methods. By shooting on Super 8 and not using professional actors she was able to follow her own ideals about filmmaking. This is similar to the style of punk filmmaking with the camera and actors.

6. Mainstream porn focus on the male, his penis, and him getting the ultimate satisfaction when the day is over with. The Color of Love however, focus's on the two females making love while the male seems unimportant.

7. The Laura Croft character was taken out of her video game world and inserted into the world of film. Awhesh used repetitions of Laura's body movements in different variations, wardrobe changes, and different camera angles to form the piece. Also a theme of incomplete actions circles the settings.