Anthony McCall works. I found it really intresting the way he creates spaces using just light and projections and also how his work is complex and simple at the same time. Indeed although it seems that the projectors and just showing the same image, the lines are actually slowly moving and it takes half an hour to have a perfect circle projected at the end of the light cone.
This are some experimental model from Teemu Määttänen.
He's a young lighting designer and a media artist who graduated from the Theatre Academy of Finland. This is actually showing my idea for the cinema museum, working with curved surfaces to get the images projected distorted and fragmented. I really like how the structure changes with and without the projection....I think that the projection makes it more intresting.
Fabio Novembre, Negozio Stuart Weitzman, Roma 2006. What I like about this design is that the elements are so fluid and soft, the space is dynamic and and also relaxful at the same time. The stripes running along the walls the floor and the ceiling create a sort of unity of the space, all the elements are connected to each other in a unique environment.
Sketches of my idea. The corridors are the only spaces on the first floor where collection can be displayed. The problem is that having no surfaces to exhibit their objects, the only thing they can display is posters and signs that can be fixed to the wall, or use boxes and tables on the floor. The result is that the walls are overcrowded and beautiful objects stay close in the storage room beacuse there is no space for them. Also the collection should be displayed properly, pehraps with a narrative, a story.
So I wanted to realize a display area in the corridors where finally the objects can be exhibited and I sketched this idea of a surface that runs along the walls connecting them with the ceiling and the floor, giving unity to the space. The form is inspired by the snakelike and intricated movement of the film inside the projector.
The objects can be placed on this surface which acts as a narrating line....from the oldest to the newest, from the ashtrays to the projectors they can be placed one after the other following some kind of order so that the visitors can follow the red surface, watch the object displayed on it and get to know their story.
Tim Burton is my favourite director. He was born in Burbank in 1958. After school he won a scolarship to study at the California institute of the arts where he became keen on animation. After three years of studying he got a job at the Walt Disney studios, but his drawing and his ideas where well too dark and scary for the company that didn't appreciate his work. In 1982 he left the Disney studios and realized his first short stop motion animation, Vincent, that talks about the story of a child who wants to be like Vincent Price,who is actually the narrating voice of story. Then he obtained from Disney the money to realize Frankenweenie where he converted Mary Shelley'story Frankenstein in a children's tale.After that he realized in 1989 one of his most famous movies Batman with Michael keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger. Thanks to the success of this movie he founded the Tim Burton production and in 1990 he realized Edward Scissorshand which was Jhonny Depp's debut.
In 1993 Burton produced Nightmare before christmas which is considered is masterpiece. Althougt he didn't direct the movie, he draw and made all the characters and left the direction to his friend Henry Selick who realized the movie with the stop motion technique.
Again in 2003 Burt will realize another of his big success, Big Fish - stories of an incredible life, which is a little different from the usual dark atmosphere of his movies. Indeed the film is really colourful and surreal, the main character is immersed in a fantasy world where reality and imagination are melt together.
In 2005 he realized a new movie Charlie and the Choccolate factory and a new animation The Corpse Bride. In 2007 he won the golden lion for his career at the Venice film festival.
His latest work are Sweeney Todd which is an adaptation of a Broadway musical and Alice in wonderland, a remake of the famous story of Alice who goes in a fantasy world after cheasing a white Rabbit.
I like this director because he is far from the flashes and the gossips and only talks and express his feelings through his works. I also like his romantic spirit and the way his stop motion animations depict the values and the ideas of the romantic poets and writers of the 19th century. The gothic style of the scenes, the horror stories, the sense of darkness, anxiety and melanchony, the feeling of escaping and exploring other places to find the answers to the unexplainable are all typical of the Romantic age literature. But also he knows how to bring his character to life and his extraordinary imagination makes him a great artist and a great director.
This is a scene form Paz, my favourite movie which was directed by Renato de Maria and released in 2002. The stories of the movie are taken from Andrea Pazienza's comick books and are set in an italian city, Bologna during the 1977. The film depicts a generation fighting for political ideas, occupying schools and universities, but it also shows the emptyness and the anxiety of the main characters who keeps themself busy with drugs, sex or doing acts of vandalism to try to hide the misery of their life. But the main question is whether the rest of the world who is busy in this nonsensical race to achieve what society call a good life ( go to school, go to university, be productive and useful for the community , be goodlooking and presentable and so on..) is actually normal, or if the characters who try to isolate themself from society, beacuse their brain is too slow to live the fast life, are perhaps more human....
The three different stories of the movie happen in the same time and at the same place. The characters see each other, but never communicate.
In this video, Penthotal, one of the main characters, who is always lazy and constantly wearing a pyjamas,who stopped getting involved in political debates and spend his evening smoking and asking himself why he is so apathetic, goes in this kitchen to see why there is so much noise and find himself involved in a meeting of left wing students who are shouting talking about problems that they probably will never solve. Is interesting to see the movement of the camera when people talk, going back ad forward to underline the intensity of the confrontation between the characters and also how the kitchen suddenly become the lecture hall of a university, mixing reality and fantasy and showing Penthotal's confusion and oppression in this crowded room.
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