One of my ideas for the exhibition would be to create sound for a clip. I have experience doing this already this year with the Sound For Screen unit by rescoring David Lynch’s The Alphabet. I would like to go into film composing as a career choice after university, so this could be another way to experiment with sound for screen and push my skills. When thinking about composing for screen I am drawn to experimental cinema. Experimental cinema is great for composing opportunities as avant-garde films range in tone and genre which gives you lots of choices to compose for. For example, you have films like Enter The Void (Dir. Gaspar Noe) which is a heavily stylised, colourful, and intense film filled with techno and dark ambient music. You also have films like Satantango (Dir. Bella Tarr) which is a 7-hour film filled with bleak cinematography, Tarkovsky Esque cinematography, and a very minimal score. There are lots of opportunities when it comes to composing a film, it is important to figure out
Over the Christmas break, I decided to revisit the work of the Vienesse Actionist movement that took place throughout the 1960s-1970s. I will make a whole blog dedicated to the movement and what the movement was about. But throughout their time numerous experimental short films were created by these Vienesse Actionists that I found very inspiriting. The Actionists use the human body as the main centrepiece of their work, the way this is explored in these experimental shorts feels like a predecessor to the body horror subgenre that would start to come into place in the 1970s with directors like David Cronenberg.