I thought seeing as how i have got a bit behind on editing my current work i would instead show you a few older films.
This first one was made at the end of my Btec National Diploma, so i think about 3 years ago now.
It started off as a bit of a joke between me and my course amte Gabby. We came up with the concept and shot and edited it within 2 days, so it was never meant to be this big final piece masterpiece, but then somehow that is what it became (well maybe not the master piece part). And i ended up submitting it as my FMP.
The idea behind it is that the viewer is watching something quite pointless, filled with 'in jokes' that they dont fully understand. The audience is almost waiting for it to get more interesting but it never does. It was shown as part of an exhibition, and we had lots of people coming up and telling us how frustrating they thought the film was. Which we loved as that was the whole point!
I like to think of this film as the start of my interest into people and the way they behave, and it is a theme which has run through my work since i made this.
Make The Space Your Own from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.
This is a recording of an installation of a film i made as part of my first year of Uni. I had just switched courses (from Animation to Fine Art) and joined half way through a project, as such i had only 2 weeks to create this piece, yet despite the rush it is in fact one of my favorites!
It was in response to the title 'Time and Space'.
I decided to look at how people make a space their own, but over time it changes and becomes somebody else space, I felt this idea was particularly relevant to students, as we live in student houses. The room we call ours and have made our own this year, will belong to somebody else and look completely different next year.
This film shows 6 different people, each presented with the same space and how they make the space their own, by moving stuff round and adding their own belongings.
I then projected the film back into the original space creating the installation. So the viewer was watching the film on the back wall, they were able to look around the room and think about how they would sent up 'their room'
Fears from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.
And then lastly we have this, another installation, but this time from the start of my second year.
I was inspired by Jim Lambies 'Screamadelica' which i saw at the Moma last summer. I spent ages sitting in front of the piece waiting for the eyes to blink. As they never did i decided to create a similar piece of my own that did move.
Rather then eyes i chose to focus on the mouth, and thus was also able to incorporate words and speech. I decided (after alot of thought) to have the people talk about things they are afraid of. I wanted a topic that everybody could relate to, something that showed we are all the same (in that we all have fears and phobias) but that we are still different (in that everybody is afraid of different things)
I then projected this into a bedroom setting, complete with the installation tape spider web that Lambie's original had. I chose the bedroom as it is a room that is considered 'safe' a place where your fears cant get you.
I had plans to develop this work, as i overall i wasnt that satisfied with it, in particular the bedroom setting, as it was all a bit rushed towards the end of the project. However i then became interested in the idea of cameraless film, and have been working on developing that since then.
Maybe one day i will go back to this idea and see where i can take it.
As always i feel i need to say that i had to compress these films quite alot, from around 700MB to about 50MB. So obviously alot of the quality is lost, but hey ho.
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