Research continuation

Paul McCarthy- "Painter"
    This video was by far the weirdest video I've ever seen. I had so many questions while watching it like, why are his hands and ears obnoxiously big? What in the world is he saying? Why are the paints and paint brushes so large? Why is he so anxious? This video made me feel very uncomfortable, the way he's talking to himself almost reminds me of schizophrenia.

Dana Birnbaum- "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry"
      I watched a clip from this movie and in the beginning a woman is pretending to fight someone. The change from the clips makes it look like she's fighting herself, which I thought was really cool. Then it got a little weird a man dressed like darth vader wanted to give her s shot of some substance and the woman ended up knocking him out.

Valie Export- "Zeit und Gegenzeit"
     I thought this video was pretty confusing, probably because they were talking in a different language. But i also didn't know what the working men were doing. Like what was that hot liquid they were pouring, and what were they doing with those big cement rocks. However, I thought it was pretty cool how she integrated the double scissors throughout the video. That was the one thing that caught my eye throughout the whole thing.

Bill Viola- "Reflecting Pool"
     In the beginning this video really creeped me out because it's based in nature and then a man just comes up and stands by the pool looking at the camera, I felt like I was watching a horror movie. Then he jumps in the pool but the video pauses it when he's in the air. Throughout the video the man in the air starts vanishing into the background until he's completely gone.

Matthew Barney- "Cremaster Cycle Trainer"
      In the beginning I actually enjoyed the video, the nature scenes where so calming. But then it started to get weird, people were dressed as weird creatures I've never seen before in movies, but I still enjoyed it I thought the makeup on them was interesting. I started to dislike the video when the rest of the scenes were all the creatures dying in gruesome ways.

William Kentridge- "Automatic Writing"
    I really enjoyed watching this video, it was very calming. I love how he animated drawings, It was like he made the drawings actually come to life. I also enjoyed the little details like in one of the first scenes the drawing was still except the water was the only thing moving.

Peter Campus- "Three Transitions"
    This video really stuck out to me, it really grabbed my attention. I think his idea was so cool, it was like we were watching him through another universe or another perspective.

Nam Jun Paik- "Global Groove"
    At first I was not impressed with this video, it was just two people dancing it wasn't very visually interesting. However, I was glad to see that the artist put affects in the back of the dancers and the affects gradually took over the bodies. The video definitely got more interesting but this video didn't particularly stand out to me

Ryan Trecartin- "I-BE AREA"
     This video was extremely bizarre, I don't even know how else to describe it. It didn't really strike me as being art, it just seemed like a weird video that pre teens would do for fun. But in a creepier way.

Tony Cokes- "The Thing I Need"
      I surprisingly thought this video was pretty cool. The video started singing "the thing I need" and then it just stopped and the rest of the video just had the words on screen. At first I thought the video paused but the time kept going. I think his goal was to get a confused reaction from his audience and he definitely achieved it.

Sam Taylor Johnson- "A Little Death"
      This video really grossed me out but I couldn't stop watching it. The dead rabbit kept decaying and in the end it looked like a tree truck. However, what confused me was the fact that the rabbit was decaying but the peach next to it wan't.

Ray Harryhausen -"The Ray Harryhausen Creature List"
      I really enjoyed this video, obvious his stop motion skills are impeccable. If I didn't know he was a stop motion artist I wouldn't have even realized he used the stop motion method because it flowed together so well.