This is part 3 of the about Andrei exodus.
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So after “Walking on Sunshine.” The Kung-fu film, I had a taste of film making in my mouth, and it tasted good. I was however, still a painter at heart. Also there were no classes that I knew of that offered video/film as part of their curriculum. Not one to be deterred by something as trivial as a class not existing I ventured forward. I decided that I could kill 2 birds with one stone. So…I began approaching my non art Professors with requests to do videos instead of essays. Now essays are much easier than videos, and generally take less time, but videos are much more fun and you don’t have to site sources as much, because your sources are speaking…Huzzah.
Now the only professors who would let me do this were my religious studies profs. It’s interesting that it was the ones who taught the eastern religions, and not the ones who taught western religions. Anyway that doesn’t matter, so at the end of this I had two more videos in my repertoire. One about Reincarnation, and another called “Zen and Snowglobes.” I can’t show these due to the music used in them. <sad>
So after this I really had the bug and in the summer of 2002 there was a bastion of hope. This hope came in the form of a video art class. I think it might have been offered as an evening class once before, but I this was the first I had heard of it. Anyway, long story short, I was stoked.
The first video I made in this class was “Superhero Dilemma.” I still really like this video, and feel it’s quite good. I worked really hard on it. The assignment was to do a 2 minute narrative. I would like to say I worked as hard as I did out of a determination for excellence, but that would be a falsity (Wow I’m surprised that’s actually a word.) The true reason for me working so hard on “Superhero Dilemma” was a girl. There was this very attractive girl in the class, and I wanted to know her better. I’m a little shy, so I thought I would use my art to catch her eye. (I knew my fashion sense at the time would just push her away.) It’s also a fairly autobiographical piece so it was a chance for her to know me better. Alas when by the time I finally showed it to the class, she was no longer in it.
Anyway here’s the video.
Another video I did in the class was “Doll.” One day I was walking my dog, Winston, and we came upon a burned dolls foot. When I first saw it, I thought it might be a real foot, but it happily wasn’t. This got me thinking…”Woah, I should make a video about a burned doll.” So I went and bought a doll, ripped it apart, burned it, then made a video about me finding the pieces.
Here’s that video.
Finally a third video that stood out for me, and the last one I did in the class was called “Superhero.” The assignment here was to make a predominantly audio piece. So in this one the visuals weren’t all that important. This is a piece you could just listen to and it could actually have a similar impact as if you watched it.
For this one what I did was go around the university interviewing everyone I came into contact with about superheroes, then I took the best ones and made the video. You don’t need to be an expert to have an opinion on superheroes. They’re part of everyones life whether they like it or not. Anyway I took the best of these and made the video you see before you.
So that’s the end of my video class. Next we’ll talk about how these video developments influenced the BFA show that changed my life!
Till next time
Andrei
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