Smith and Bush the Icons

These are my favorite films we watched in this Image Meditation class. The films I’m talking about are John Smith’s, “Worst Case Scenario” and Paul Bush’s, “Episodes from the Life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, these films related directly to what we are doing in class. Smith’s film was inspiring, because he incorporated random people within his work that were not participating in his film, he added some humor and even had a small sound track. One scene of the film I liked a lot was when he was shooting the kid in a long shot at the candy store and he was looking in the window in black and white, then it jumps to the kid’s point of view and we see it goes into color what he is looking at. This reminded me of Hitchcock’s, Rear Window.
The film was voyeur in a way, but the people knew that he was looking at them, because they looked into the camera. I tried doing that for some of my treks, but that didn’t work out to well. People here don’t like random people taking picture of them. The film that I really admired was Bush’s film. There was so much technique and time dedicated within his work. It was a remake of the original, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He created this image of more than one person sharing a continues rhythmic body. I felt he was reflecting of the story of the split personality between the characters the difficulties of this film I know was very high to have to do this over and over. -Randal Jackson-