William Kentridge: The Refusl of Time - Review

In the Metropolitan Museum, located uptown of New York City, held an exhibit of an artist, whose work has constant meaning with time. William Kentridge is an artist, known for his work of prints, drawings, and animation films. He construct filming his drawing, making changes, and filming it continuously. His exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, shows one of his work call the Refusal of Time, where is films moving actions continuously to represent time.

William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time features live action and sounds that all have to do with time. His work either consist of a cycles images of films with many clips that had to do with the same image and represent different position of time, or a continuing film that happens during a period of time. Basically his work for this exhibit consist of linear and non linear time.

I was very interested in his work when I saw the his exhibit at the Met. I truly understand that he was trying to portrait time as linear, when I saw the blacken silhouettes of the band dancing around, and non linear, the many images films of metronomes that were clicking all differently. The only think that I had a hard time figuring out was the center piece in the middle of the room. It was just moving a certain cycle as the walls projects different images.

The Birth of Pegasus

Presentation

The story that I'm telling in my piece is the Greek mythological story of the birth of Pegasus. Pegasus was born when Medusa's head was cut off by the warrior Percy. During Medusas death, she was already pregnant because she was violated by the God of the Sea, Poseidon. The minute Medusa's head was deattached from her body, Pegasus rose out and flew away.

The image on the left is a mini sketch of how I see Pegasus rising for Medusa's head. The image on the left is how I want to construct my story telling, by cutting out images from each scene of the story, out of a book and using a light to project a larger image on a surface.

This is the storyboard I created to narriate the Birth of Pegasus. Each page in the book I'm using, will have a image of each box I drew out from my storyboard. I want to tell the story with a continuing cycle, of how the minute Medusas head it cut off, her head lands on the ground. Soon Pegasus slowly comes out and slowly starts to grow into a full size horse. When he reaches is maximum size, he start running to get a head start on flying. When he is no longer touching the ground, he flies away until we can no longer see him from the distance, but slowly something is falling from the sky, which turns out to be the head of Medusa.

 

 

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Sound - Tropics

Sequential Movement - Running Dog

Time Lapse - City Lights