Journal

I read an article about specific artists discussing films that have influenced them. The one I read was from the September issue, it was about Babette Mangolte. It didn't list an author for this article, however. She had mentioned that one of the films that influenced her was "Man with a Movie Camera" by Dziga Vertov. She said that this movie inspired her to give up mathematics and apply for film school. She also said how the film "Wavelength" by Michael Snow was the reason she came to New York to make movies. I enjoyed this article because I feel like there is a movie or a few movies for everyone that inspired them to do film. I feel like everyone has a moment when they realized they wanted to do film or be involved with film somehow. I also read an article by Michael Bracewell called "Seeing is Believing". It was about an artist, Bridget Riley, and her research into relationships between form, composition, and visual perception. It discusses paintings she has done which consisted of black and white lines and how it was a result of traumas in her life. I think it's interesting to see art pieces that are so abstract and yet there is alot of meaning behind it and thought, when someone could simply look at it and say its just a bunch of shapes and lines.