Comments on: splitscreen

By: jonnie l

jonnie l — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:43:05 +0000

A truly wonderful observation ! i spend my day’s considering video quality, editing, formats SDI,HD blah,blah… this is a sharp reminder of the basics – 5 points

By: rob parrish

rob parrish — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:19:21 +0000

us adults should bounce more and gesture less.

fine video. perhaps one of these days i’ll visit your yard, bouncing and gesturing!

Rob

By: trine

trine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:46:43 +0000

i think amy is the physical manifestation of what Phil is discussing – he is obviously talking about something exciting.

and i obviously live in the wrong part of the country…

By: Zé Nuno

Zé Nuno — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:48:05 +0000

Nice virtual splitscreen… liked it a lot.

By: Derek Mantle

Derek Mantle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:07:55 +0000

Loved it. The way it’s all framed, slight slow motion and music.

It all added to an ethereal and queerly emotive film. The music adds a detachment but it also amplifies that the subjects are joined together by an invisible thread. Happy to be engrossed in their own activities but aware of each others proximity.

Great stuff.

Thanks to everyone (and your players Phil and Amy) for sharing.

By: kath

kath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:49:03 +0000

it felt a bit like watching a modern interpretative dance. could see the energies shifting

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:06:03 +0000

Ha, Phil, I did say I put all my interpretation there. The slow motion is a giveaway that this is just a few little moments. And I spent last week helping a friend edit her thesis for her MFA – she’s been making sculpture to express feelings repressed during childhood from growing up in a family whose members had some very serious dysfunction going on. Her story is coloring my interpretation of everything right now.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:32:25 +0000

thanks, everyone
@rox yes, all rain comes from england
@cheryl yes! it’s hard to hold still for even one minute with so much calling on you to react.
@lloyd friends as art: why tuttle was so at home at the ICA
@phil true! i have another video of you both playing sweetly. i don’t see you as ignoring her… you’re both absorbed passionately in your own adult/child worlds, and she stops to listen before going back to hers
@lovelyliza every november is a second wave …the trick is maintaining momentum

By: Lovelyliza

Lovelyliza — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:51:48 +0000

How wonderfully the music guides your eyes. Lovely video – good to have you back! The start of a second wave?

By: Phil Campbell

Phil Campbell — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:50:57 +0000

great, now i look like i was ignoring amy. i want to add for the record that we had been playing ‘throwing the teddy over the top’ previous to this as ru was putting baby to bed. ;0

i think you should have called this tunnel vision. i’ve never seen myself in slow motion, it’s interesting to watch the gestures and the authority in which i make them. i’m all jazz hands.

Lovely music.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:08:38 +0000

What I loved about Mike’s piece yesterday and this one, is seeing our friends as subjects of our art. I love Phil’s exaggerated gestures, made all the more poignant by the slomo. It feels very English and contemporary, not least because of the tramp-o-cage.

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:49:03 +0000

Ru, this is AMAZING! We have a little resonance going I suppose. There are times when I see these moments. I don’t always record them on camera, but certainly record them in my mind. Amy, in her little cage. Phil ignoring, even leaning away. The way she tries at first to get his attention, then returns to her jumping, then eventually turns her back on the whole scene – a mini journey through several emotions. And you, the observer, just recording it. You capture all these things, simultaneously insignificant and significant. And you, yourself, a little cruel and extraordinarily loving all at once. And me the viewer, putting all this there.

By: Heath

Heath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:09:04 +0000

Beautiful video……pure and simple and beautiful…

By: Rox

Rox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:27:53 +0000

Precious and seeing Mr Phil C an added bonus. The music makes you all and the UK feel so far away though. It is raining here today, so perhaps some of these drops drifted over from you all to say hello?

By: PaulD

PaulD — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:40:16 +0000

Hey I love cheese, but there is no cheese here…just a wonderful video where the music does fit perfectly. Don’t you just love that!