VideoArtes

The video depicts an animation of the inside of a woman's restroom. Close-ups are used to show different things that are happening during the course of the animation. A turtle can be found in one of the toilets during a portion of the video, and a woman lets a moth free from her hands. I feel what makes this art is the fact that it is experimental animation. The way the projector is set up to portray the scene makes it seem as if the room may actually exist. When not being used as a room, the walls act as different cameras for the animation.

In this video, old photos of the city are taken and transformed into the similar areas that can now be found in that part of the city. This is paired with the sounds of the city and music to accompany it. The transition effects give the pictures a morph-like quality, as if it is truly transforming into its new state. This is art because it takes the use of photographs and gives them a larger meaning, bringing a story to the two pictures of before and after. The change between the past and present can clearly be seen, and begs the question to the viewer of just how much time has passed and what has changed to get to this point.

This was one of my favorite videos. The artist takes pre-recorded footage of a parking lot and positions his hands in such a way that it seems as if he is the one moving everything around, from pushing people aside to parking the cars himself. It is truly a work of art, as it challenges the view of the original video, making  the scene seem as if it is just some sandbox for this mighty being to toy with. In reality, this is real footage of a parking lot, but when deontextualized it looks as if it is the artist's own little play-set.