Frame by frame

I've decided that I'm going to continue with Sounds That Prove That I'm Alive for the frame by frame project. I am going to use a digital recorder to capture everyday sounds that my body makes (see last blog entry). This will be the soundtrack. After that's complete, I will animate the sounds using cut paper/collage. Once complete, the animation will be screened on a television either facing another television with exactly the same film showing (as if the character is looking into a mirror) or it will be show on a television facing an actual mirror. This way, I hope that the viewer will begin to think about reality vs. fiction. The sound recordings will be real, the animation constructed. But since the animated figure is looking at herself in the mirror, she takes on human characteristics (self-examination). Then maybe the viewer starts to wonder which image is actually the real one, which figure do the sounds come from. Mind fuck? I HOPE SO.

Sounds that prove that I'm alive

Yawning
Breathing
Sighing
Eating/chewing
Swallowing
Screaming
Singing
Crying
Moaning
Laughing
Whispering
Talking
Angry talking
Yelling
Wimpering
Burping
Farting
Sneezing
Coughing
Whistling
Chanting
Gurgling
Raspberries
Mouth farts
Tongue clucking
Animal sounds
Kissy noise
Breath of fire
Siren sounds
Mmm-hmm ("yes")
Mmm-mm ("no")
Mm-m-mm? ("I don't know")


I was thinking I could make the figure in the animation looking in the mirror at a "reflection" of herself as she's making all these sounds. They I thought I could make her looking at the camera, and show the film on 2 televisions that face each other, as if they are looking at their reflections.

3 ideas

I'm not really sure the best way to start a blog so I guess I'll just start.
I have a lot of fragmented ideas about moving pictures and experimental films, but none of them are as developed as I'd like them to be. It's brainstorming time!

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Here's one idea: Photograph still lives made up of magical objects with different lighting. Stop motion animation, lighting won't make sense according to time of day. Objects might come alive. What do objects tell us about ourselves? Lighting should confuse time.
Examples:










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Another idea:

A collage-based stop motion animation involving a human figure who is just trying to eat some snacks while a cat is getting all up in her business. Here are some photos from my experimenting:










I will show you the rest in order on my camera because blogger is treating my bad right now.

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One more thing: I am really interested in music and sound manipulation creating moods. I want to record every sound that I can make, and photograph my face or mouth as they are happening. Maybe these sounds will surprise me. Maybe they will convince me of my existence. Maybe they will convince me that I'm just another animal. I'm not sure.
I'm also thinking about how recordings happen in at the present moment yet they transcend time because they proceed to exist in the future and in completely new contexts. They are time capsules of a sort.

Inspiration: Adrian Piper, Food for the Spirit, 1971
Photographed herself to prove her existence