Reading Response Three

Reading Paul D. Miller's (DJ Spooky) article "Material and Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image" I was introduced to a different view of film as a ritual. Miller talks about Maya Deren who described a ritual as an action that needs to be viewed so that it's purpose can be understood. Miller explains how then that film and time are one because film allows a ritual to be seen at a time and space when it is not physically happening. He continues to explain the elusiveness of now and the wonder of how everything works. The blip of consciousness of reality that is the present can be captured and preserved in film, I understood that this is why he remixes film, to alter the reality that was once lived in order to draw the attention of a spectator to his message.

This was an extremely interesting article mainly because of its relation to what I have been doing with my audio and video captured in my drifts. I have been remixing reality, capturing the ever changing present and remixing the story of my walks in order to create something entirely different. For me the idea of what I am creating is not as interesing as how I am creating it in this instance. I did not edit my video in a way that would invoke a cetain message in a viewer, I instead attempted to alter my memory of what I had viewed on these walks and I think partially has to do with what I read from DJ Spooky.