Film Art

I'm going to do things a little backwards here, and start with the film that won our "Best in Fest" award, The Reverie by Natalie James, a high school senior at the Shanghai American School Pudong campus. Maybe I'm reading into it, but her video seems to capture that "stranger in a strange land" feeling that comes with expat life. Moreover, what strikes me is the way that feeling is built almost entirely through subtextual camera shots and editing.

Film and Video artists These Artists often get overlooked in a study of Art History, shifted at best to tangents and footnotes. However, as more emphasis is placed on integrating the medium of the 21st century the importance of looking at this genre becomes more apparent. Most of our interaction with the moving image is limited to fiction, non-fiction, and advertising - and so there is always some message or idea that the video or film serves. In this art form, however the viewer is invited to experience a moving image in a variety of new ways, from moving painting to installation.