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People are drawn to this sort of thing because it evokes a certain sense of accidental surrealism. When you see an image like that in the middle of watching som
by RichardCA 10y ago
People are drawn to this sort of thing because it evokes a certain sense of accidental surrealism. When you see an image like that in the middle of watching something else, your brain reacts to it. A good example might be the twins from The Shining, which Kubrick borrowed from Diane Arbus.
There's an artist by the name of Stan Brakhage who built an entire career out of exploring this effect. And once you watch one or two of his films you begin to see his influence everywhere.
- cyberferret 10y agoI was watching some old episodes of "The Young Ones" on NetFlix a while back, and noticed that they did this in their show quite a lot - each episode had at least one or two images inserted randomly in them for a split second. Nothing to do with the episode story at all. I was intrigued because I never noticed them decades ago when watching the original series - they are far more obvious to me now. Must have been a common technique at the time, because I remember watching another English show from the same era (the name of the show escapes me), which did the same thing.
- sweis 10y agoDid you ever notice the 5th Young Ones roommate?
- cyberferret 10y agoThat was the OTHER thing that freaked me out when I finally noticed it only recently. I thought he/she was only in a couple of scenes, but then I read a blog post about it which showed him/her in a myriad of other scenes that I had completely missed too!
- Freak_NL 10y agoHuh. I never knew. Someone gathered all the scenes containing him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2L4QtAGGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2L4QtAGGQ It looks like an in-joke of the production team. To be fair, The Young Ones was already quite surrealistic in its humour (e.g., a talking Glaswegian hamster).
- theoh 10y agoEven working with the specific material of film header is surprisingly common in experimental/artists film. See e.g. Guy Sherwin "At The Academy" (using standard Academy header) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agQsAS6T_Lk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agQsAS6T_Lk Birgit and Wilhelm Hein's "Materialfilme" is just colored header which bears the marks of repeated projection. https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/language/en/info/p116_Materialfilme-1968-76.html https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/language... Those are from the 60s and 70s. Artists are still at it, e.g. Lucy Raven, RP31, (2012): http://lucyraven.com/RP31 http://lucyraven.com/RP31 I'm not judging Raven's work but I for one am no longer interested in variations of this genre of film...
- RichardCA 10y agoI have a distinct memory of this one, back when "Animation Festivals" were still a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFTDDLa2z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFTDDLa2z4