From: ian stewart (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 12:10:59 PST
>i think it is a visibility thing.
>music is of a much higher profile than found footage films any day of the
>week.
>it has an economic model behind it and is a much more prolific medium....
'Found footage films' to 'music' isn't really the right analogy- more apt
would be found footage films to plunderphonica. Sampling in commercial music
is probably more analogous to, e.g., the use of film fragments in Cinema
Paradiso. Two differences I see between music and film-
-technological development of domestic music technology seems a few years
ahead of film/video; it's been possible for years now to make
pseudo-professional music at home on mass-market computers, whereas this
technology is still relatively primitive for film/video. I suspect that some
trends resulting from the 'democratization' of music tools will show up a
few years later in film/video.
-I could make a coherent hiphop track using a sampled beat and ten different
sax loops from various jazz records, but I'd have continuity problems making
a coherent narrative film by sampling images of the same actor from ten
different movies. Not to say visual sampling is impossible, just that the
artist has to propose an interesting solution to the problems it offers (as
some filmmakers have successfully done).
best,
Ian
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