"Touch" (experimental video)

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I did this video for my art option. We had to reflect about a quotation from Paul Valéry (a french poet): "La peau est ce que nous avons de plus profond" ("skin is the deepest thing we have").

So I decided to make a video about a blind girl who is making a sculpture, for skin is the only real link between the world and the blind people. So this example explains why skin is something so intimate and deep.
The particularity of blind people is that they can't figure out "good" things and "bad" things, whereas people who've got eyes are often influenced in their decision by the society. And how society can influence them? By showing them what is good and what is bad! Blind people don't have this influence Touching something allow you to express your own opinion of what it is because the skin can't be influenced.

The skin is deep because it allows us to express, for once, our own personality and at this moment we become artist, for art doesn't make a difference between the "good" and the "bad"

ALL THE MUSICS BELONG TO THEIR ARTIST AND THEY ARE NOT MINE. THE CREDITS BELONG TO THE COMPANIES.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• experimental
• video
• blind
• skin
• sculpture
• touch
• see

[gecko8553]

i liked it!! could work a bit more on the parts showing that shes seeing through the touch, but over all its well done!

curious.... is she really blind? or just acting

[midinette]

@gecko8553 Hi, thank you for your comment! The girl is not blind but she was wearing lens so that her eyes seemed to be strange.

[navmachine]

Great work. Very provocative.

[midinette]

@navmachine

hey thank you for your comment! but I was wondering...what is provocative in my video? ^^

[midinette]

Thank you for your comment =)! Haha the fact is we mustn't see the sculpter once finished because otherwise we would be sort of "decieved" by our eyes.

Anyway, thank you for watching

[MagnitudeSix]

Fresh and brilliant adaptation from the poem. Keep it up!

[TheLuckyBlackswan]

i love the idea and it is very well presented during the video...

[shunj808]

nice work!

[sChatterG]

btw awesome film!! it just simply works!!

[0deinemutter0]

very strong, aesthetic clip. art.

[CommanderFraulein]

@Hollenvaen The goal of experimental filming is to place the viewer into a more thoughtful state in relationship to the film. It isn't standard experimental but this does fit the genre - and it is a thought provoking film.