Wednesday 30 April 2014

Film still options














































These are the 45 images I have collected so far over the course of my research. What I plan n doing now is going through them and finding the best 10 - 15 best that represent the surreal, intense, offset subject I am trying to envision. To do this I am going to look at the surrealist masters like Lynch, Breton, Dali and Bunel to influence my choosing of the strongest images. These final selections must also have some sort of theme, I do want the collection to have a disjointed feel as surrealism dictates, but I also want to have something going on underneath the surface which can only be found by looking at the selection as a whole, an incognito narrative.

Wednesday 9 April 2014

Kenneth Anger: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)











I seen some weird movies before but Kenneth Anger is a truly weird guy, I have just watched Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and I have absolutely no idea what happened or what the film was meant to make me feel, and I love it! This ambiguity, art for arts sake and surreallness is definitely what I'm going for in my images, something that doesn't have to mean anything but simply looks good out of its context. I'm going to watch a few more of Anger's movies and then move onto other surreal cinema, above are some of the screen shots I took form the film.