FATHOM THE BOWL: A lyric video made at the Embodying the Video Essay – videographic workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 8-15th, 2023. This was primarily an experiment in adding sound to a silent film sequence from DAVID COPPERFIELD (A.W. Sandberg, Denmark 1922) and in seeing how multiple screen editing might work like an audiovisual kind of harmony or polyphony […]
Exercise created by Dayna McLeod for the Embodying the Video Essay Videographic Workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 2023 Information on the exercise prompt at our Ways of Doing website:waysofdoing.com/resources/taste-and-smell/
Like in the phenomenon of phantom pain where we experience an organ hurting that is not physically part of our body so too does audiovisual material trigger our senses. I was particularly interested in how different bodies would experienced to be interacting with each other, my face with that of Eddie Constantine, ascorbic acid and the […]
Dayna McLeod’s exercise for the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop, Bowdoin College, 2023. Prompt questions: “Particular smells and taste have the potential to unlock memories. How might these senses contribute to our analysis of our media objects? How can these tangible and visceral experiences be communicated in audiovisual form?”
An exercise highlighting the presence of trees in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. Returning to the clip used in “Embodied Sound,” I brought many images of trees moving rapidly, which reminded me of looking through a car with the windows down; this is meant to stimulate a memory of an arboreal scent, one that may […]
Made during ‘Embodying the Video Essay’ workshop, Bowdoin College, July 2023. Based on an audiovisual exercise designed by Dayna McLeod. For research purposes only.
I made this video at the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College in July, 2023. The exercise, designed by Dayna McLeod, had a list of parameters to help practitioners explore the potential taste and smell of the texts we study. Details about the exercise can be found at https://waysofdoing.com/resources/taste-and-smell/
