Rusted Gears

Winner of the Peter Greenaway prize at UWA.

Just a quiet little machinima for the University of Western Australia. For this I was wondering if I could make a type of connection between the music and the fading in and out of the poetry. To see if the viewer would subconsciously change their own breathing to match the rhythm. The poem is really just about watching someone go. Having a brief moment to say or do something to change their mind, yet instead remaining silent because the words won't come. Then forever searching for them in everyone else.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• peter greenaway
• second life
• bryn oh
• virtual worlds
• virtual art
• machinima
• immersiva
• sigur ros
• melancholy
• poetry

[PixelsSideways]

Congrats Bryn. A lovely visually stunning work using TEXT as narrative. Which made me smile that you won the Peter Greenawy prize as I remembered reading this part of PG's own words in the J/J interview: "Number One - the killer tyranny - TEXT - most cinema is illustrated text - it should have primarily been a visual medium - but the visuals nine times out of ten take second place to the narrative text..."

[BrynOh]

@PixelsSideways I remember reading that as well before the ceremony and wondered if mine was exactly what he wouldn't like. I was surprised and happy when he picked it. Perhaps he is talking more about something like a novel which would lose so much in the transition. A novels strength is that our mind interacts in a void with the text to create the imagery. Everyone imagines something different. Maybe planning initially in images rather than text is what is best done with a visual medium.

[BrynOh]

@BrynOh When I create a painting, I don't first write down in text what I wish to convey. It travels from my mind directly into a visual representation on the canvas. There is not a text barrier between. It's a different medium that doesn't belong in that process. Perhaps that is what Peter is saying. That film should never have been dictated to by the text medium as they are not perfectly compatible. That text is fine to use as long as it's not the dominant force in a visual medium.

[WhiteLebed]

100 years from now AI historians will use your machinimas to prove that you WERE the first robot who had learned how to make art..

[BrynOh]

@WhiteLebed haheha that is too funny. Well if I keep myself nicely oiled and rust free then hopefully I can stick around long enough to see that.

[BrynOh]

yes all is done inworld. Its windlight combined with my sim Immersiva.

[textcavation]

A film I keep coming back to, Bryn. The "rusted gears" reference is so evocative. She can't move on because she her mechanism is rusted with her tears. :(

Hypatia

[ardigraf]

beautiful scene Bryn. Very Emotional!  You're so BIG!

[smidijack]

Lonesome & gorgeous..

[2SenseProductions]

Awww so lovely, now when i see the rusted metals in your sim i will feel sad . . .

[PhoenixEmbers]

Simply wonderful. Piece of art and poetry.