| I feel as though i can relate well to Tait. Her work was not trying to create some superficial thing, she wasn't trying to fool anyone, she was just simply telling people her story and the life that she has come from. I feel as though my work is starting to follow this similar pattern. She speaks softly over the top of her films, simply and openly, as though you are her friend and of course you would know whats going on. She speaks using first pronouns, "I, her, she". Yes this is relatable, but it makes it specific to one person. I can see that in my writings i want it to be more ambivalent - less personal, so it's no longer about me but perhaps about the person in the film, or whoever my audience want it to be about. |
She has birds in the background taking over the main sound, flitting between spoken word and that. My writings won't be read out load, but i like the birds coming in loud then fading. The filming is so casual, normal and slightly glitchy. The homemade feeling to it adds comfort and connection to it. I often worry that my films are not up to some high tech specification, but this non perfect look adds something endearing to it. After i have made a film, i could add a post production 'wobble' to it, just slightly unsettle it. But there is a endearing beauty and care to this film, that i wish to achieve in mine. In some of her other works, she includes a rhythm of time, a beat. She keeps us in check with the progression of the film. I'm not sure that want a constant beat, but i like how in mine, there is the beating of time through the tolling of a bell at some points. There are also glitches in some of the background sounds she uses, things don't need to be perfect, it gets you out of the ideology that this will be a pretty perfect film. It also seems that repetition is key, and this in itself is unsettling. When does the piece begin and end, when are you free to leave it? Her sound work in "Garden Pieces" takes over the film, it almost detracts us from the images and over powers us. I was my sound to be in the distant and the film to be more of a main thing.