cineANALOGIES is a research project for my master thesis.
I study interactive media and environments and I work mainly with photography and video but also new media. An important aspect my artwork deals with is our perception and our viewing habits and how both are influenced by the media around us. At a certain point, I had to question myself where my intuition regarding the creation of images was based on.
In other words: How did I learn the words for this visual language we are using? Although I was never used to watch that many movies, I had the impression that, to a certain degree, my work was influenced by cinema, yet I could not really pinpoint in what way.What also fascinated me was the assumption that there were certain similar images recurring in all kind of films. If my hypothesis was true, what was the function of these images? Were they used as stylistic devices? Was cinema, known to be exaggerated, essentially based on those stereotypes? A lot of other questions arose: Why do we like certain movies? What makes a movie a masterpiece? Where did the myth around classic films come from?I started my research by watching a lot of movies and collecting similar film images. The more I collected, studied and analyzed the more I started to feel like a scientist who fanatically looks for a hidden truth, seeing all the collected data as evidence that could be interpreted. An extraordinary analysis of cinema took shape. Its results are presented in many different ways like sketches, information graphics, animations and video installations. To keep record of my progress I created this blog.
see the images my research is based on: analogicalscenes.blogspot.com
view my portfolio : www.sarahjanssen.com
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