Utopian Dream
(2010)
makers: Ashlie Goh, Wei Liang Loh and Hairianty Abdul Hamid.
Things falling down, or perhaps ideas floating up? Two comments. This is a nice idea and one that is worth working with. It needs more space. It sits too close to the main video window and so the relation between them is not established visually, they compete with each other. The solution? Make the K-film project bigger, be bolder with its scale, and then there's the opportunity to have more space, room, to work with, to put some breathing room between the thumbnails as ideas rising or things falling, and the videos.
Now, the browser tells me the work is "the big one", but I suspect that refers to this being the final, large assessable task rather than the work itself, so the question becomes, what is this work is about? How do I know? One answer might be to watch lots of it, but films, songs, books, poems and paintings have titles for a reason.
The use of narration with each clip is a good idea, it provides a lot more context, another layer of comment, thought, prompt. The work is moody, possibly wanting to tap into some post-something-I'm-too-old-to-know-about mode of trance, dance and contemporary club culture. (Hence the magic mushrooms? Or are they more innocent than this?) The continuous sound track is OK, and the provision of a volume slider a good idea (though perhaps a bit more attention as to where it could be?).
This works well as a mood piece, a video tone poem around a critique of being a student, and young, now. It needs a working title, if only to help situate what tone and mood, from what view or direction, this is intended.