This is my favorite of my own video pieces so far because it's the most personal and spontaneous -- really a stream-of-consciousness memory-movie captured and strung together over a weekend for the House Next Door's Close-Up Blogathon. I pretend I now know what every image, every sound "means" here (though much of that was discovered just in the act of dreaming it up and putting it together -- or didn't occur to me until I actually saw it), but that's not the point: Just let it sink in and see what dreamy associations it might conjure for you...
Original illustrated notes on "a free-association dream sequence" here. Originally posted here.
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Wonderful video Jim! What software do you use to make your video essays? I need to do something sort of similar for a project and iMovie isn't really cutting it since I have to rip the DVD with Mactheripper and then make a clip using MPEG Streamclip, which reduces the quality of the video. Is there any free software out there that is better?
They just don't make close-ups like they used to, anymore.
James: "They just don't make close-ups like they used to, anymore."
My response: go see The Headless Woman.
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