Sound and Space

Firstly, I hope you had a fantastical Christmas!

I have spent the whole boxing day sitting on the sofa and didn't really budge except for mother nature. I did something today that I have not done for such a long time: I did the couch potatoe thing.

OH YEAH, did it feel good?? We bought down our duvets to the living room, plenty of Chocolate selections and all curled up on our sofas. Even better we watch 6 films on the trot. Ahhhh!

But what the film striked me was Steve McQueen's, "Hunger."
Its the second time I have watch it and its still one of my favourites. Maybe because before I attended Middlesex Uni, I was from a Experimental film background.
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For me, "Hunger" interpretates space but in a experimental cinema. And it the reason why is has striked me to write this here is because my final project (Module MDA3909) that while I write, imagine and think of the idea, visually I keep on visualising the attention of space. What I mean by this is that McQueen concentrates on small details but drawing us to apprecaite these fine details to be a great work of art.

But its not only this, its how McQueen plays with the sounds: the power of contrasting silence and concentrated sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZxUvZjHF0