Erwin Wurm - Photographs

These are some images from Erwin Wurm's "One Minute Sculptures" that have inspired us for our Experimental film.

Erwin Wurm - Photographs

Whilst researching Erwin Wurm's "One Minute Sculptures" I thought there were many images we could make from his art work that we could use to inspire us to make our own "Sculptures". 

I took some photographs to experiment different ideas for our film from Erwin Wurm's "One Minute Sculptures". 

Erwin Wurm - Research

I did more in depth research into Erwin Wurm and his work has a lot to do with the "Zeitgeist" which is the spirit of age or time, Intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time. Erwin says in an interview that his work has a lot to do with "the icons of our time and our society and icons are by nature brash an in-your-face. There's a lot of aggressiveness about their presence"
We will try and link similar ideas, using mood and emotion, colour, tone, backed with contrasting, humorous props that will be very bold.

Experimental Group - Research and Ideas. Erwin Wurm and Emotion and Mood.

We decided on a starting point for our Experimental film. We researched artists we liked and which inspire us and we all decided on using the artist Erwin Wurm. We all liked his artwork and the reasons why he makes them. We particularly liked Erwin Wurms "One Minute Sculptures" where he poses himself and various models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects and found that these pieces of art gave us inspiration for our film. The fact that he uses humor as one of his main aspects of creating these sculptures also interested us, Erwin says in an interview "If you approach things with a sense of humor, people immediately assume you're not to be taken seriously. But I think truths about society and human existence can be approached in different ways. You don't always have to be deadly serious. Sarcasm and humor can help you see things in a lighter vein."
We then began brainstorming of other themes that we could use within this film and decided on using emotion and mood. And began thinking of ideas how to create a film linking both theses films and a way of filming it, also how it will visually show to the audience. 

Experimental Group - Research and Ideas

We have decided against the physical metaphor film idea because after thinking it over it wasn't the strongest piece and couldn't think of how we would film it, it would have also been a struggle to exceed the 5-10 minute time given. We then began brainstorming new Ideas and researching films on Vimeo and Youtube and other websites to gives us inspiration.

Experimental Group - Research and Ideas

We thought of another Idea for the film which was to use every day life metaphors such as "Turning over a new leaf" etc and turning those metaphors into actual expressive movements and visually showing different metaphors.

Experimental Group - Research and Ideas

 Today the group met up and discussed Ideas and research we have done for the Experimental film, we all gave our thoughts and opinions on what the film should be about. I discussed my film idea which was based on how technology is used in today's society and how everyone relies on these technology (ie easy accessible internet via mobile phones, laptops  tablets) and how its effecting the world. Using extreme examples to convey this. We decided that to fully exceed this films potential, it would go over the time limit of 10 minutes.