| Mozart, Lennon, van Gogh, do
we need pain to be creative? Does an artist need to have experienced
hard times in their life to be inspirational, or is it just an
elitist view with society liking the idea of the artist who has
fought and struggled to produce his / her art. The learning series
consists of four short films. They are the most "arty"films
I have produced and ask, do we need pain to make art, be it painting
or writing etc? These films take the linear line of this idea
and reverse it. The need for pain to be creative is satirised
as the pain is being created on purpose to produce the work, it
is pain for pains sake. A montage of sound that gets into your
head and creates an uncomfortable sound track, in turn causing
an audio pain to the viewer. The name of the series of the films
reflects what I learned while doing these films; the more you
experience the bad things in life the more you learn how to deal
with them, a pain is never the same the second time as previous
experience helps you deal with it. |
