MANIFESTO

INTENTIONS (dice task) :

BLACK – RISK –  ‘the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value, often focusing on negative, undesirable consequences’

WHITE – COLLAGE – ‘a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.’

RED – PLAY – ‘engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.’

VISUAL:

• playing with gender, makeup, clothing, male and female etc – links to risk and play
• using different clips to form layers of the video, making a collage (make some layers translucent, linking to collages make during the dada movement) – links to collage
• the video could maybe in complete black and white, maybe some stop motion too.
• aisle wanted to add rundown clips of objects and places to add sway away from the normal idea of a film, rebelling against the norm, unexpected.

SOUND:

• music/clips from the time the Dada movement began and even into the surrealist movement, linking to that theme of rebellion and identity. This is music from 1910 to 1920 onwards
• some bits could be silent depending on what part of the video they are.

FILM SPECIFICATION

IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS:

My theme for this short film is rebellion, gender and art, mainly focussing on how individuals express themselves in society through their gender and art styles. Gender has always been a very political subject through history, and only now in 2020 are we really starting to accept peoples identities and feelings. People in modern day society have the ability to present themselves however they like, through clothes, makeup, hobbies, body, actions etc, when is past decades, this was merely impossible due to social norms.

I am very inspired by the Dada and Surrealist movements (collectively from 1916 to 1966) as they where the first people to explore radical things like Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism and formed a revolution against the constraints of the rational mind; and by extension, the rules of a society they saw as oppressive. These two movements have intrigued me and I would like to incorporate some of their ideologies, artwork styles and views in my film. One main artist that I have been influenced over the past couple years is Claude Cahun as she has Cahun illustrated the various possibilities of genders and of the body. Here is a blog post that I have created while researching Cahun, explaining her intentions and ideas.

SURREALIST AND DADA ARTWORK INSPIRATION:

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SOUND: I would like to incorporate many different aspects of audio and vocals into my film, to create a scene of randomness and to make every second unexpected, linking to the risk factor, some of my ideas that I would like have in my audio include:

• Ambient noise; which refers to the background noise present at a certain scene or location, including noises such as rain, traffic, crickets, birds, etc. My man idea is the radio playing/echoing in a supermarket, or maybe the radio while at home, like channel 103 or radio 1. Rain would be a great sound to have in the background as it is a relaxing and soft sound.
• News interviews, and political interviews that would be on Tv daily. I would like to make sure these clips are related to news about gender right, and other identity related topics, to link to the idea of my film.
• news articles include: “Government considers reforming gender identity rules” and California to house transgender inmates based on gender identity which I will record and put into my film.
• Silence. I would like there to be no noise in many parts of my film, depending on what clip is being watched. I think that having some parts of the film without audio will create an interesting contrast to the other audios played. Maybe I could include subtitles on the screen like a silent film would. This would add diversity to my film.
• Tristan Tzara sings The Song of a Dadaist (1920)