Monthly Archives: February 2006
Exegesis on solus in tenebrarum
The following is a discussion of the process of creating my screen test self-portrayal project for Mediaworks weeks 6 and 7, which was titled “solus in tenebrarum,” (Latin for “alone in the dark”) I realize it is horribly pretentious to name your work with occulted Latin phrases which few people but yourself will understand, but [...]
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Sadie Benning: Pixel Persona
Jed Smith – 2006-02-20 Notes for a Film W6 Sadie Benning The videos of Sadie Benning are an innovative anomaly that creates a unique language of expression. To some extent this innovation is dictated by her technological medium, the Pixelvision camera. As her working style evolved, it began to intersect with the precepts of the [...]
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Jay Rosenblatt: Masterpieces of Ascendency
The films of Jay Rosenblatt are constructed so that they maintain universal appeal, and a sense of earnest sincerity, even while using found footage to construct the visual components of his work. He does this through carefully calculated choices in the construction of his films. These choices are evident in his usage of audio and [...]
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Richard Fung: Fungus Confessional
2006-01-23 Jed Smith – Notes for a Film Week 2: Richard Fung The work of Richard Fung is much more in line with the idea of a confessional than the work of Su Friedrich. In Su Friedrich’s films, our sense of her identity is obfuscated and mediated through stylistic and aesthetic aspects of her artwork, [...]
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Su Friedrich: Subjective Diegesis Through Disjunct Images and Text
Notes for a Film: Week 1 Jed Smith – Mediaworks 2006 One of the most striking things about Su Friedrich’s work is her stylistic innovation of separating the semantic and visual components of her films in the creation of meaning. This characteristic is common to all of her films which I have seen, though it [...]
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The Bees
The Bees is the first seriously involved video project I did after the acquisition of my first camcorder (a Panasonic PV-GS150) in late June 2005. Created over a period of time from late July 2005 to late August 2005, it is a tale of repression, rebellion, and occultish artifice starring the central species of the [...]
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Other Independant Projects
If anyone is interested in seeing other video projects I have been working on outside of Mediaworks, there is a compilation of all of them under this extended entry. They are ordered chronologically.
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Mediaworks Projects of Yore
Behind this extended entry there lies most of my past projects from Mediaworks, for those that might be interested. In order they are Jed Inside, Coffee Destructo Vision, The Lunchbox, Bang, Capitol Compression, Half Dead Organs Crossing.
Soon Mi Yoo: The Modality of Meaning in Essayisticity