I did the open
studio thing a couple of weeks ago, which provided an opportunity to watch my film
behave as a projection. Open studios isn't generally the ideal situation to
show a film work. The piece itself is quite contemplative and has a great deal
of silence punctuated by sound – plus the long echoey corridor adjacent didn’t
really help matters. You realise pretty quickly that only 10% of those viewing
it might attempt to watch the entire thing – but that’s a hazard of video I
spose. Also I reckon there are lots of preconceptions about what an open studio
is (apart from the expectation of actual art objects i.e. paintings and things)
they are characteristically social events.
But despite this it
was a really useful exercise, some issues were immediately clear for example my
treatment of the transitioning between subtitles. There were also (embarrassingly) lots of
typos, which seemed invisible on a small screen. Especially whilst dealing with
all the other elements of editing. So it was good idea to try it as a test bed
to help iron the thing out.
But the process of making
the movie has stimulated a desire to make one more show out of this project. I want
to make some new objects, screen the film and continue to finish some animation
I’ve been working on over the summer. All this I think - with re-visitation and
maybe some reworking of a few components from the last solo show.
Now the only thing is
to work out where to have it, how to pay for it, and how to fit it in between
another kind of creation, which will soon be upon me…
