I wanted to try something with modern footage because anything I try to make with old footage tends to be quite cliché.
I like the Internet trash aesthetic. It is often very unserious and feels like diving into an unknown realm. I also like that calling it art makes my old art teachers squirm.
I was inspired by this artist
IF WE DON’T,
REMEMBER ME.
IWDRM was a blog of animated movie stills active from 2010 to 2015.
A video installation was shown in exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX), &FOAM (Amsterdam) and The Event (Birmingham).
I like their reappropriation of film stills, turning them into whatever outcome they want.
I also like the visual aesthetic of Cory Arcangel
I especially like how everything feels kind of crusty or corrupted.
For my piece, I was inspired by a Twitter post that overwhelmed me with joy, sadness, and humility.
I wanted to harness the emotional energy that films are known for and combine different types of content. Film is high-budget, with thousands of people dedicated to a single project. It is high-class. To a tweet: low value, low impact, low resources.
While also trying to reference the crunchy garbage aesthetic of internet artists and what is often connotated by people who spend too much time on Twitter.
I found this website, on which if you type in words or a quote, it will find that from a movie (that has been added to the archive).
I couldn’t fully find exact quotes for the tweet, so I added subtitles to ease the transition.
It was a fun project, and I think if I spent a bit more time trying to re-word the quote so it made better sense, the project would be more coherent and might carry the emotional weight I was attempting to key into.
I also think that this is a genre of art and visual aesthetic I really like; it doesn’t excite me to make it. So perhaps a little less love went into this type of art and I doubt i would be making more art like this in the future. although i think this could be done really artfully if i had some more time to spend on it.