I am working on the cine films again. I thought I would look at images that repeat signifying the narrator/film maker. I made screen shots of the animals and birds that one particular film maker habitually filmed. These would make good wistful paintings, rather like the children paddling scene that heads up this blog.
While I was reviewing the cine films and thinking about the images and perceptions they involved, I also considered the lost images and narratives recorded in the damaged frames, so I took screenshots of a selections of these too.
These damaged frames say more about the nature of the cine film narrative experience than the animals and birds above. I decide to see how I can reflect this by working on these images in other ways. First: engines, burned image with soft pastels:
I enjoyed making this work, but the texture does nothing to communicate any lost narrative. I decide to try a quick version in watercolour:
I think this does more to convey the un-fixed quality of the lost narrative that I’m after. It doesn’t look much like the original frame screenshot, though. Need to try more methods.
