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.

 

 

documentary

Sound - Tropics

Sequential Movement - Running Dog

Time Lapse - City Lights

Nickie Kang
Time: Frame
Ken Millington
Memento Review

This film is about an investigator who is trying to revenge his wife's death by capturing her murder (so he thought) and got into an accident himself that night, where he can only remember shortly. So had to right down notes on a polaroid photos that he carries with him in the entire film, or tattoos himself.
This film first showed the ending of the story and worked his way to the beginning (basically telling the story backwards). Their were parts in the film that told a story but changed back to a beginning part (goes backwards) and leads to the ending scene again, following this routine continuously in the film until we reach the absolute end (the beginning).

Nickie Kang
Time: Frame
Ken Millington
The Library of Babel review

The story starts off by explaining the interior of the Universe ( Library), that it is shaped like a hexagon, with four wall of shelf books, on each floor. The narrator, who arrived to the library young, is now old and soon to past on., realized that this library is so old, that it had to be created by a god. He also said that he witnessed many people killing each other or going insane, just to find the answer of why this library exist. He also discover that in this library, that no two book are identical, and one of these book must have the answer to they question that everybody wished to discover. That is why he stayed in the library so long, just to find the answer of why this library exist.

Nickie Kang
Time: Frame
Ken Millington
The Circular Ruins review

This story is about a man who traveled far from his village because of a disease that affected his village, and came to another village that had a temple that was ruined by a fire. He jumped out of his boat and fell into the sacred mud, that healed him from the wounds he had before. He lied down on the floor of the ruins and slept. The minute he woke up, he was healed, but went back to sleep. In his dreams, he would dream of himself as a teacher teaching students, that don't really understand his lessons. He did this every night until he died, and said that this is what the gods wanted him to do.

 The beginning scene starts from the front view of the house and leads into inside of the house. As we enter the house, we capture the dog and playing and sleeping. After the shooting this scene, we interview the owner. The owner is going to explain the history of the dog. After the interview, we will show the footage and photos from the past. The past photos will be shown in black and white. After this, doctor(present,daughter of the original doctor) will talk about the dog. At the end of the video, we will use the scene dog playing around and slowly fading out. While we show this scene, we will do voice-recording telling how it is still unknown how this dog lives so long.

Nickie Kang

Time: Frame

Kenneth Millington

Exit through the gift shop review

             I feel that the believable part of this fictional documentary was the actual art the street artist created and how famous they got from the poplicuty. They became famous from one big showing, and then their art became known to the public with the chronicle art they distribute after that. But for terry who was already known from filming other street artist, became famous from that, because of his connection within the community like meeting Banksy. This was also why he because a famous street/ pop culture artist in one night.

            I feel that the unbelievable part of this fictional documentary was the films that terry documented. He filmed all the actions that her happening during the street artist community, but he never showed is to the public, just kept it save and store in his workroom. Because no one knew about the realness of his participation in the art community, it would be consider unknown, and unreal.

            I feel that the moral of the story is to message young artist that there is always a certain time in the world when certain style of work becomes popular. When you see this opportunity, take it, and you will go far as an artist. Just like how Terry walked into the beginning of the street pop culture, and was involve in it, encouraging him to be an artist and became a famous artist in a short period of time. I feel that personally what this movie is trying to say is that time is everything.

Comic Book

Long vs Short

Time Map