Monday March 5th

In class today we watched 5 films. These were "3rd Eye Butterfly", "Available Light", "Night Flight", "Luminous", and "The Dark Room". The first film, "3rd Eye Butterfly" was by Storm De Hirsch and consisted of the screen being split into two different parts, sometimes it was split into eight. There was also a drum beat going on throughout the film. I thought that this film was alright, it had color and sound which I find more interesting than black and white silent movies. The fact that the screen was divided into two parts made it more interesting as well, and it was at its most interesting when the screen would be split into eight parts, usually four of which mirrored the other four. I thought the screen being split made it more interesting because there was multiple things to look at, so if one screen bored you, you could continue looking at the other sections. The next film "Avaliable Light" was also just alright in my opinion. I thought it was pretty cool at first because the colors looked cool when they changed, especially when the colors were changing from a bluish torquoise to white. I thought that was the best looking part of the film, but I think that it was made too long and I eventually lost my attention. I'm also not sure how creative that film would be to make, because Prof. Bogner made it seem like almost anybody could create it by just putting film into an old camera and letting it run. The third film "Night Flight" consisted of a black screen with two black and white squares that would appear when a sound was made. I actually kind of liked this one. It was cool that the black and white squares would only appear when there was a sound, and when there was a beat that would last about 10 seconds or so, it would look pretty cool with the different squares changing every time a different sound happened. The fourth film, "Luminous", I just found kind of annoying because the sounds were loud, screeching noises that just kind of bothered me instead of intriguing me. The last film, "The Dark Room", was easily my favorite viewed today. I really liked the weird water images, and it made me wonder how he got the angles and shots of the water. Although there was no sound, my attention was kept throughout because the imagery was fascinating as well as interesting.