chapter 2 greg p

In Chapter 2 Rush talks about narratives, formal experimentations, short humorous tapes, and large-scale meditations all in the form of video art. The most interesting part of Chapter 2 was the segment on personal narratives. The notion of arising artists in the 1990s that attempted to take questions of identity using passive and majestic approaches. This was represented in robinson or me, engaging in metaphors of solitary and lonesome life. Another instance was is Oriental Elergy in the attempt to capture a suspended time and space between life and death on a remote island. These pieces remind me of the representations and aspects of the modern day TV Series Lost. Here is a clip from Oriental Elegy, which depicts a narrated story intertwined with video.


Oriental Elegy, by Alexander Sokurov (excerpt) by medicitv