It was interesting to review my collection of work related to the cine film frames at the time, but more so to look at it later. I used this collection as the subject for a sample catalogue we made for another module.
While I made the work, it was a real challenge to let the medium do the work, so that I didn’t introduce my own interpretation of the narrative I attached to each frame. Some pieces were far more successful in this respect than others, but were less appealing to viewers. The images in my previous post were satisfying to me, but not particularly interesting to viewers. Putting them all together for the catalogue some time after making them was a good opportunity to reflect on these pieces again. Some really were little more than sketches, but showing them in the catalogue was a very useful way to consider why some worked for viewers better than others.
Here is a screenshot of one catalogue page showing the cine frame and my sketch related to it. This sketch, despite seeming to me to be very primitive, and densely drawn, did engage some viewers pretty strongly. I’d made plenty of changes to the original frame which reflected different pieces of information about it that I’d heard over many viewings, but of course, my sketch is as silent as the cine film. Although I had to give the catalogue images some sort of label, I never attached any clues to the information that drove my composition. I can only think that the sketch’s ‘sketchiness’ is what draws its viewer in…
