Genius of Moving Image Part 1

1) Sam Taylor Woods work can seem filmic in photography and photographical in film. She often uses actors obviously associated with film in her photographic work such as Crying Men which shows a strong link between film and photography. A stronger message is sent b using recognizable, famose men. Her imagery in photography is ethereal which gives a sense of movement, also the use of colour can be filmic.
The other relationship is the overwhelming use of emotional states in both her film and photographic work and an autobiographical leaning. I think perhaps women tend to be dominated by this subject mater in art. She is a victim of herself and uses this in her art.
2) h euse of multi screen installations in Sam Taylor Woods work can play with the viewers sense of spacail percepion in terms f the narrative. The actors are presented in realtion to each other to give their charactors more ephasis to a viewer. it allows sound to be seperated adding to the intensity.
3)Two photgraphers wo have used film as part of their inegral work are Cindy Sherman as she created movie esque sets in which to portray characters which she called ' movie stills' This is photography directly influenced by film.
Also Gregory Crewdson creates hugely expensive photographs set up as if they were a movie with actors, movie lighting, art directors. He also has nothing to do with taking the actual shot which is similar to film as directors do not film as a rule.
4)

Douglas Gordon in his own words: "I was trying to get to the point where you can make sense of even the most chaotic images or pictures which formally and aesthetically are battling with each other. While one film is representing good, and one represents evil, the fact is that they can coexist quite easily - on a physical and conceptual level. I simply played the two films at the same time, together and on the same picture plane. They were not manipulated in any sense - there was no alteration to the speed, or the sound, or the form."

Steve McQueen

Can art address these questions?

Art can't fix anything. It can just observe and portray. What's important is that it becomes an object, a thing you can see and talk about and refer to. A film is an object around which you can have a debate, more so than the incident itself. It's someone's view of an incident, an advanced starting point.

Shame is released on 13 January

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bkLmIRzV8

interview with Steve McQueen

5) David Lean

Ryan's Daughter
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
These are examples of films which the director in this case David Lean has chosen to take on a film/script as the locations are so visually captivating. Kerry, The Sahara and Siberia. The locations almost guarentee a great film.