Week One

A moving Image 2016 dir. Shola Amoo

Benjamin Williams also known as Big Ben, his voice and the choice of song “sometimes these south london streets remind me of” brought a difference in the flow of the storyline. He is not introduced by the song but the addition of it in the middle of the movie gave it much more impact when he dies. 

Though this is a work with intense meaning and evolution, I felt a lot of familiarities with a commercial movie, Dear Zindagi. Its was about Mental health awareness but in the form of a family entertainment by prominent Hindi film. The similarity wasn’t about the storyline or the direction. It about the choice of the emptiness and an abrupt starts of sounds thoughout the duration.   

Fatima’s letter 1992:

 It’s a short movie which has a chaos as an element in it but I found the chaos calming and was making me doze off. It might be the consistency of the 

With the tube and traffic which makes it calming and was not able to concentrate on the text. The shadows on the text were disturbing making it much more difficult to interact and attentively watch it. 

During session:

It was one of the most anxious day till date to step into a complete unkown territory. But the peace and relief I felt while trying to use a H5 and Hydrophone was a complete miracle. I was not holding/ handling the microphone properly and my hand was definitely shaky the while attempting to get the Hydrophone to be in the perfect level to hear the sound of underwater movment.