Comments on: Exegesis on solus in tenebrarum http://jedypod.com/alone-in-the-dark cerebular exocarp Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: B Hutch http://jedypod.com/alone-in-the-dark#comment-6 B Hutch Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:55:17 +0000 http://grace.evergreen.edu/~smijed07/blog/?p=11#comment-6 "As is also characteristic of my process, many of the subtleties and nuances were not planned, but added intuitively during the process of creation. This is true of the childlike voice accent in the primary voiceover, the addition of the whispered sub-voiceover, and the entire ending, which I will get to in a moment." "This will be significant of your own struggle with the auto-representational nature of the project you're doing, and hopefully make apparent the fact that you are a subject and are represented, not true/authentic; there is no authentic in media portrayal. is there an authentic self represented in social interaction any more than in movies/films? both are an act of representation. I slit the throat of the me in the film, and raise my arms to the fetid green of the projection screen, mirrored by it and afraid, but laughing." I'm not sure if your work is something that lends itself to easy and clear transference between you and the viewer. I have watched this at least 6 times now and I'm still not clear on exactly what you were trying to say to me the viewer. But that's the thing: is intellectual dialogue really what you are trying for or is it more of a feeling that you are trying to explore. Like your static tv short... I remember watching that and being struck by how it didn't make me think so much as feel. It is the same with this. A lot of the dialogue goes by too fast for me to really get it all. The layering also adds to this effect. But what it does is leave behind a distinct impression. Not to inflate your ego or bring you down, but it reminds me of what I get from the best of David Lynch's work. He often leaves an impression behind not a clear roadmap to where he has led you. If isolation, alienation and personal feedback loops are what you are going for with this, well good job I get that and then some. But if you are trying with "solus in tenebrarum" to get me think or feel something outside of what I listed above then yeah I didn't get it. That's of course not to say that everyone else and their cousin's brother won't, just that this little chubby ignorant hillbilly didn't. So yeah It was good to see this again... it definitely gets more across when watched multiple times. Well bye... lots of luck with the Graham Jed experience hope you can make with the funness. -B “As is also characteristic of my process, many of the subtleties and nuances were not planned, but added intuitively during the process of creation. This is true of the childlike voice accent in the primary voiceover, the addition of the whispered sub-voiceover, and the entire ending, which I will get to in a moment.”
“This will be significant of your own struggle with the auto-representational nature of the project you’re doing, and hopefully make apparent the fact that you are a subject and are represented, not true/authentic; there is no authentic in media portrayal. is there an authentic self represented in social interaction any more than in movies/films? both are an act of representation. I slit the throat of the me in the film, and raise my arms to the fetid green of the projection screen, mirrored by it and afraid, but laughing.”

I’m not sure if your work is something that lends itself to easy and clear transference between you and the viewer. I have watched this at least 6 times now and I’m still not clear on exactly what you were trying to say to me the viewer. But that’s the thing: is intellectual dialogue really what you are trying for or is it more of a feeling that you are trying to explore. Like your static tv short… I remember watching that and being struck by how it didn’t make me think so much as feel. It is the same with this. A lot of the dialogue goes by too fast for me to really get it all. The layering also adds to this effect. But what it does is leave behind a distinct impression. Not to inflate your ego or bring you down, but it reminds me of what I get from the best of David Lynch’s work. He often leaves an impression behind not a clear roadmap to where he has led you.
If isolation, alienation and personal feedback loops are what you are going for with this, well good job I get that and then some. But if you are trying with “solus in tenebrarum” to get me think or feel something outside of what I listed above then yeah I didn’t get it. That’s of course not to say that everyone else and their cousin’s brother won’t, just that this little chubby ignorant hillbilly didn’t.
So yeah It was good to see this again… it definitely gets more across when watched multiple times. Well bye… lots of luck with the Graham Jed experience hope you can make with the funness.

-B

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