Deadpan

When first entering the class here now into week three I already had this idea of what we were going to see... Although I might personally tend to find most of these films we watch rather boring or repetitive, I really had a slight change of heart this time around. When reading the 3 page blurb about Acconci's work, it gave me a different perspective on experimental work as a whole. One quote in particular intrigued me, "Acconci's body comes to replace the traditional art object, even as it performs the disappearance of a "productive" laboring body." It was brought up a few times I believe in lecture and in this reading that when using himself as an "art work" even though he is sending out these progress report types.. he himself still becomes sort of the center of the work as well. Touching on the other films we watched, I brought this up in discussion that I feel these films seem to grab my attention with a awesome shot or even an idea, but tend to lose me by not taking it anywhere. Maybe I just dont have the patience for experimental film, but after watching the mirror I do have somethign to say about it. I really liked the whole idea and look to the Mirror film, it played with my thoughts and views by making it almost like the man is holding a tv screen or a moving image... but my only complaint was I wish they would have done more with it. It was like I said an awesome idea, but they took it to slow and didnt do the zoom out till way later which was a rather cool effect. Ending this piece Id just like to say that before this class I really had no interest in experimental film, but after analyzing it a bit more, some things still bug me, but I am a bit more open after these last films. We will have to see as the class goes on...