Double Vision and Film Strip Revelations

While watching Third Eye Butterfly, I noticed that instead of focusing on both of the videos at once, my eyes would mainly focus on the screen to the right. I don't know why I was drawn to it more, but looking over the left screen completely and not focusing at it was more pleasing and soothing on my eyes. When I realized what I was doing, my attempts to correct this and get the full effect of the video left me kind of drowning... my attention was torn, even though the videos were similar. A part of me feels that this kind of installation could be used as some sort of mental experiment, almost as a way to test the mind and how it thinks, or the eyes. I wondered if looking at the right screen instead of the left ment something about the paths of my mind.

Anyways, watching the split screens reminded me of another music video that I enjoyed that splits up shots of the band members by using two frames right next to each other.



Available Light, I thought, was all about de-mystifying a movie experience. When you sit in a theater and watch a movie, you should feel like you are drawn into another world, and not think that you are watching tiny frames of pictures speeding in front of a light projector.

In this clip from the movie Fight Club, the director David Fincher throws in a little creative touch to a Brad Pitt monolouge... the film seems to come off of the reel momentarily, almost as a way of jarring you back to reality or just to freak out the projectionists...