final project

This is a video based on dream. The dream here can be said as nightmare. Contents of fragments in the video were not related but they were connected with opening and closing eyes. In this way, audiences can tell it is a dream.

The first fragment with glaring paper falling down is the beginning of a dream. I make it enticing with sound of fairy's magic stick that lead people to entering my dream. Then the following fragment is playing with ants. I used green screen to make the hand look like being cut and ants were climbing through. This part may make audience feel discomfortable but it can also be dreamlike with shinny particles. I was spirited by Adam Castle's video. He added fragments on nails by painting green nail polish.

The next fragment in the forest has a connection with last "I don't know where to go" video. I started with a very peaceful fragment of reading newspapers. Then I started to run with newspapers and hide behind trees. This part aimed to transmit that something is going to happen and I am trying to hide and skip. Then a caution sign appeared.

The fragment with shadows and the stairs all have a horror movie sound. The incubus with shadows were created with light and my body movement.

In the stair part, I walked both outside and inside to indicate that I may be watched and monitored by someone else at that time. I was inspirited by Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon". She captured lots of shadows instead of the actress so that it gave me a feeling of dark. Also she was chasing by an unknown figure without dace.

I chose to use the actual sound of the video in the very last part that I stepped on the stairs and left from the door. This part can be understood as I came back to actual world and can also be said as I disappeared like the ending of my last gesture video.

In the reading "Tristan de Cunha", Tacita Dean talked about her journey to Tristan de Cunha. She said," This fantasy belongs to the analogue world: the world where you could still get lost." Tristan de Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world that people may want to go there and escape from the real world. Sometimes, we all need to take a rest and skip from the very busy real life. In my video, I always disappear in the end that can relate to this reading.