Lindsay Conad - Video Clip Blog

Bunny was an interesting short clip that rattled me in the frustration that comes with the loss of a loved one. The aesthetics showed the bunny being very easily irritated with the batter and the bug and the cooking. The shaking lights and hands of the bunny seemed to show the frailty of life and the way that it can be taken away so quickly and easily. The moth was an interesting character to be portrayed as an angel of death, but I suppose that just puts into perspective that we do not really know what death is like until it is our time to go, and I imagine it will be much different that I dream about.

Northfork was easy to follow since we had just watched the film last week. The bison and the boy was an interesting aesthetic in the double shot. I loved what we talked about in class with the endangered species that is growing due to captivity and the running boy that is fleeing from that of this world. The contrast between eagerness and stubborn refusal is obvious and very interestingly displayed. It also showed the carrying and release of a burden. The man and his son had been burdened for a long time with the moving of the mother/wife's grave, and the moving to higher ground where the mountains are in view and steadfast gave a permanence to her place and a peace to their hearts.

Paris, Texas was all about communication, and the different modes showed a severe lack of communication between the wife and husband, man and child, and between brothers. Communication was showed through telephone lines, roads, railroad, interstates, telephones, and bridges. I loved the scene where the man and his son were in a truck under the bridge and the connection was shown between the two people just like the bridge connects one road to another. I also loved the scene int he brothel where the husband and wife are talking. The room seems to be complete, but he woman sees the insulation on the wall and the emptiness in her being. She tries to be together, but the emptiness and incompleteness is the same as the longing in the man to come to some conclusion with his wife. I also loved the opening scene with the man in the desert. It showed an emptiness and loss in his being, and the end of the water bottle signified a list hope and a last straw because soon after he passes out and the brother is called to get him.

Pink Floyd's The Wall was an very interesting and trippy mix of images, most surrounding the wall. Initially, there is a bleeding city which seems to show how so many are impacted by the thoughts and actions of one person. The country flag fell to a red cross sign signifying that they needed help, and that bled into a Christian cross which seemed to indicate that only the divine could save them from the place the world was at. The "We Don't Need No Education" video was interesting and showed the factory setting in a number of ways. The speech and the movement of the children was staccatoed and the indication that the school was a well oiled machine was interesting. The walls were keeping children from learning and capturing them within the walls of the school. "Back Against the Wall" showed a lot of images in regards to women being evil. His inabiliy to join in a successful relationship with a woman left him bitter and angry. The women seemed to be shown as a judge, candy, sexually pleasing, a gun, and other dangerous and intimidating beings. "Judgment" showed Pink Floyd as helpless and incapable to take care of himself in regards to his relationship and any kind of control. A quote says "they must have taken our marbles away" indicating that the women in his life and the indecency of the doctors and judges and other people have made him crazy and he did not do it to himself.

Finally, Cabeza de Vaca was an interesting film that I was far too overwhelmed to capture. We saw the cross and talked about it's power. While other men were falling, the priest seemed to be able to stand strong despite the arrows to hols up the cross and then walk into the light. This may mean he went right to death like Elijah, which sounds awesome to me! When he is in the fetal position and the camera focuses in on him, he is all alone and his plea to God is genuine and purposeful. That is a turning point for his life and when he goes with the shaman for a healing, it is obvious that another force has taken control of him. He shows this through his eyes and a seemed distance from things of this world. He is shocked by his own power, and the power comes from the cross.