This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
Influenced by the existentialist and surrealist movements, designer turned director Greg Barth’s ongoing series of video art installations Essays On Reality draws inspiration from the global economic and social-political events which shape our lives. The first two chapters from the series tackle these larger event from the point of view of “the american idiot” and “Generation Y” respectively:
Personally, when it comes to engaging beyond the surface level of appreciating the visuals, I can sometimes find the meanings and intentions of experimental and video art based films particularly opaque. Perhaps that’s something Barth has experienced himself and therefore spurred him on to clearly set out the concept and aims of Essays On Reality:
Each chapter is depicted as a caricature of its theme, which is then separated into three essays.
Accordingly, each theme asks three questions:
1) Who is the subject2) What are his/her habits and lifestyle3) How he/she perceives the worldThe abstract nature of the compositions in the series feel like a natural playground for the use of digital effects, but Barth prefers to employ physical solutions to the visual tricks required for the films:
I like working with real materials, people and physical sets. …
By: Mar Belle
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