Large scale printed video stills.

I’ve been thinking about how at the start of my MA proposal I had video stills that I was attracted to as photographic printed stills and not necessarily video footage. The delay in getting access to archive video footage has turned my attention to this again, as I need to consider the implications for my project of not receiving footage on time to cut out, and re-animate as many clips as I would like, as this is a very laborious and long winded task.
With the video stills I was always drawn to the strength of the images I had selected to cut out. They reminded me of the Russian constructivist Alexander Rodchenko’s images of the city, and of some images from the Dziga Vertov’s “man with a movie camera, in that they are quite bold and often contain strong diagonals and compositional elements. To be able to study a single image as a solid print and for a length of time that the viewer controls, allows them to take on a different relationship with the viewer, and one that has a more direct physical resonance to the viewer. With this in mind I plan to reignite my work with video stills as soon as I get access to footage, as well as embark on the cutting out and re animation of figures.