It’s Personal!
Jan 20th, 2010 by cobash27
Exploring Duality: Growing Up as a Female Halfie During the Tech Revolution
This will be an experimental piece exploring the fragmented identity of growing up in a culture of so many dualisms, projections, and false perceptions, and the attempt to find self-identity in an increasingly impersonal isolated technological society. I will also be exploring the relationships between male and female, definitely drawing from personal experience, attempting to convey and analyze the emotions that accompanied those engagements, especially in terms of sexuality and perception. For example, the struggle of representing oneself as a female in a phallocentric society.
I will be exploring the dualities of the Eastern versus Western ideologies/cultures, exploring the contrast between my two cultures, American and Filipino, as well and modernity versus traditional values.
Aspects of the project will be influenced by the Absolute Film movement and it’s use of abstract color, form, and motion as a visual language. There will be performance utilizing chroma key techniques, pixilation, and usage of mirrors.
This will be an experimental piece exploring the fragmented identity of growing up in a culture of so many dualisms, projections, and false perceptions, and the attempt to find self-identity in an increasingly impersonal isolated technological society. I will also be exploring the relationships between male and female, definitely drawing from personal experience, attempting to convey and analyze the emotions that accompanied those engagements, especially in terms of sexuality and perception. For example, the struggle of representing oneself as a female in a phallocentric society.
I will be exploring the dualities of the Eastern versus Western ideologies/cultures, exploring the contrast between my two cultures, American and Filipino, as well and modernity versus traditional values.
Aspects of the project will be influenced by the Absolute Film movement and it’s use of abstract color, form, and motion as a visual language. There will be performance utilizing chroma key techniques, pixilation, and usage of mirrors.
Timeline:
Week03-04: continue research
Week05: finalize script, secure studio times, begin shooting outside footage
Week06: in-studio shoot, continue shooting outside footage.
Studio Time:
2-hours
Help needed:
In-CCAM Studio – most typical positions
Outside – just an extra few hands
Duration: 5-8 minutes
Films & Print
3-Iron (2004)
Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious (1984/2005)
Female Convict 701: Scorpion (1972)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
How To Become Myself (2007)
I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK (2006)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Silip: Daughters of Eve (1985)
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005)
Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo (My Sassy Girl) (2001)
Gamman, Lorraine, eds. The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture
Kahr, Brett. Who’s Been Sleeping In Your Head? The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies
Leslie, Esther. Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory, and the Avant-Garde
Levy, David. Love + Sex With Robots
