Martin Arnold
In our lecture today by Franis Summers, which by the way was really interesting but so full of new ideas to me that it made my head spin. He showed us martin Arnold’s ‘piece touchee’. I loved it, it is one of those rare, clever art films that captivates you and sticks in your mind, up there with Christian Marclay ‘The clock’ and Guy Sherwin’s ‘Paper Landscape’. He then presented a paper he had written, which I must read again once its published, on the film. The film is an 18 sec appropriation of a love moment where a man walks into a room to a waiting woman and gives her a kiss. The artist has manipulated the footage forwards and backwards for 16 minutes to produce the most amaizing ‘between’ moments of a man and a woman, there is a build up to a frenzied pattered action, at once hysterical and ordered, a pull between man and woman, first this way, then that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9JJc7TEsZI&feature…
