final films

Apart from I Want To See What You See, all of these films felt somewhat flat to me. I relate this opinion back to the fact that these films use technology that I am familiar with, seeing and using daily. As some of the most modern films we've seen, I cannot help but notice these usual techniques and evaluate them more than I would in another film. I have seen the distortion of images as is used in

Sun in Your Head. Of course I could not tell the exact technique, but I recognized the effect and this knowledge dulled the viewing slightly for me. After discussion I can now appreciate the particular use of the effect for this film.

Bill Viola's films were the two of the most unoriginal (for lack of a better word) to me because they used effects which I have played around with myself and could even explain. Though they were probably avant-garde in their time, my conditioning to technology makes these film less impressive today. It was still entertaining to see how Viola used water and video effects to distort reality.

I was much more interested in how I Want To See What You See used technology to manipulate the breadth of human perception. Using different effects (montage in high contrast, color blends, negatives, odd camera angles) to manipulate what can be seen and "see what someone else may see." By seeing more than one image in multiple exposure, the viewer sees one view (supposedly the "I" of the title) and another view (supposedly the "You" of the title) at the same time.