Blog Post #4
Because I wasn’t able to go to the Museum of the Moving Image I checked out the Whitney Museum of American Art instead. Though there wasn’t a whole lot concerning film at the museum there was one moment in particular that I found particularly striking and thought provoking in regard to how the choices an artist makes in regard to the materials one uses to capture a story greatly informs and alters that story. In an exhibit concerning protest art throughout the years there was a projection of a project by an artist named Josephine Meckseper from 2005. The project, titled “March on Washington to End the War on Iraq, 9/24/05”, was a silent short film by the artist of (as the title suggests) an anti war protest during the Bush administration. What was interesting about the project was that the artist chose to film the event on super 8 film, a medium of a bygone era. That bygone era being more specifically the 1960s, another time in America’s history in which anti war protests were bo...
