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This blog is being highjacked by a few thoughts that at first didn\u2019t seem strictly relevant to Echo and Narcissus, but I now think they really are.\u00a0\u00a0 When I went to Wirad with the pilot, it was very well received, partly because not many other people showed work.\u00a0 What they mostly did was talk theory.\u00a0\u00a0 Although this was coherent, it wasn\u2019t perhaps enjoyable, or maybe even relevant to people\u2019s experience of art.\u00a0 This is because art is a synthesising experience, and I believe that the practise as research of art, or perhaps of film, should also be a synthesising process.\u00a0 It\u2019s no use taking some small element of film and trying to analyse it through practice if it can be analysed through a theoretical framework.\u00a0 For example, the use of sound has been analysed endlessly through looking at the variety of ways it has been used.\u00a0 If a practice work is going to work, then it has to be used differently, and for something<\/span>.\u00a0 Meaning is important, and that meaning has to have a form.<\/p>\n

I therefore think that art as a methodology is also vital, we mustn\u2019t piggy back on other methodologies, such as the humanities or social sciences.\u00a0 Yes, it is fine to use the humanities or social sciences as sources for adaptation, and this is good research led practice, but I need to do practice led research, as a film maker in order to have good enough practice.\u00a0\u00a0 The practice does have to be ground breaking, it also has to be historicised and contextualised.\u00a0 I can\u2019t just put it out there to stand up for itself, but the method for doing it has to be a complex multifaceted one.<\/p>\n

The analogy I came up with doesn\u2019t really work, but let\u2019s think about Holbein\u2019s picture of the Ambassadors.\u00a0\u00a0 He does various things, he uses the new sciences, lens based technology, he puts in hidden codes about Thomas More, for example, and plays with perspective, but this is all in service of stuff about mortality.\u00a0 Further although he is not doing practice as research as it wasn\u2019t invented, he did have to please all sorts of patrons, just as we do, and this was no mean feat.\u00a0 Originally, I wanted to write a spoof about this, because certainly Holbein was not responding to one particular theory, eg. Lacan\u2019s about the gaze, or putting in some crass response to the spectator, but a highly artistic and polysemic one and this is what makes the work come together, as well as the various coincidences of the time.\u00a0 Since film is about coincidence and I have argued, trauma, I think this argues well.\u00a0 – a bit truncated, but I\u2019ll expand later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog is being highjacked by a few thoughts that at first didn\u2019t seem strictly relevant to Echo and Narcissus, but I now think they really are.\u00a0\u00a0 When I went to Wirad with the pilot, it was very well received, partly because not many other people showed work.\u00a0 What they mostly did was talk theory.\u00a0\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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