Really nice. As I said before, I love how it leads in following the little boy and his footsteps speeding up with the drum beats! It really sets up the tone of our trip, that we were for a large part being led, following different individuals along a path they wanted to show us. It's also really striking how you've used all your photos of the wall to slowly accumulate into quite a suffocating effect. I didn't mention this before, but I the first time I watched it, I had an uncomfortable reaction to the mournful tone of the music in the last section as you're panning over the Bethlehem streets... it made me feel like everyone was really pitiful. Perhaps it would make a difference if we know what the man is saying, because I understood that it ends in the word "beautiful." Is there a way of subtitling it? I love how you added your work that came out of this trip at the end. Perhaps the shot of the mural could open with a close-up on the occupied man's face, slowly panning out to include his body, his surroundings, and then the gradual revelation that he is compressed between these two huge forces?
Elisa,
ReplyDeleteReally nice. As I said before, I love how it leads in following the little boy and his footsteps speeding up with the drum beats! It really sets up the tone of our trip, that we were for a large part being led, following different individuals along a path they wanted to show us. It's also really striking how you've used all your photos of the wall to slowly accumulate into quite a suffocating effect.
I didn't mention this before, but I the first time I watched it, I had an uncomfortable reaction to the mournful tone of the music in the last section as you're panning over the Bethlehem streets... it made me feel like everyone was really pitiful. Perhaps it would make a difference if we know what the man is saying, because I understood that it ends in the word "beautiful." Is there a way of subtitling it?
I love how you added your work that came out of this trip at the end. Perhaps the shot of the mural could open with a close-up on the occupied man's face, slowly panning out to include his body, his surroundings, and then the gradual revelation that he is compressed between these two huge forces?