Screening 1/6/10

Vertical Roll by Joan Jonas was a unique piece. Horizontal bars of video interference were continuously falling down the screen distorting the images that we were viewing. to me it was a very feminist piece. A female body was displayed throughout the video in various ways. The sound of a spoon pounding kept the rhythm of the piece. At the end, a woman's face was displayed above the horizontal bars. The spoon sound was reminiscent of the traditional female role of cook in the kitchen and the bars continually falling on her head seemed to reference a "glass ceiling" which kept her from rising to the top of the screen.


Moby Dick I by Guy Ben-Ner was a hard piece to watch. A home movie aesthetic paired with no audio made it difficult to hold you interest. It depicted a family, lead by the father, that reenacts the "Moby Dick" novel. While watching I became a little confused at the mix of video editing tricks and basic home video recording. After a while the concept became lost to me.