Artist Statement:
For my web spinna I wanted to explore the world of dreams in
movies. The first thing I thought of, of
course, was the movie Inception. This movie explores all the aspects of dreams
and goes into them. And this was what I
wanted to explore. In my opinion, movies
are like giant dreams that you can watch over and over again. The song starts off with the Century Fox
introduction and add the old fashioned sound of a camera rolling film to bring
the listener into a mind frame of cinema, then takes them into a dream sequence
sound and starts to play off of that.
All fiction movies are created in the mind of someone at
some point, whether they are based off of a book, an original idea, or
something adapted. Gong into a theater
is like going into a sleep for two hours.
So my project explored the relation between cinema and the dreams that
we have.
I threw in quotes form Inception
that I think really added to the feel of the song, like asking the audience to
come back to reality right as I start them into the main song of the dream, as
well as the quote talking about how things seem so real in dreams, that it is
only when we wake up that we realize it was only a dream. If it wasn’t for the uncomfortable chairs and
one giant screen, movies could be considered the same. There are times when movies can suck us in so
much that they play with our emotions, until we realize once more that it was
just a movie, with fake actors and fake situations and nothing really happened.
This reminded me of a movie I watched recently called Certified Copy, in which you are not
sure in the end if which lives the character’s were living. At first, you are sure they are strangers,
but then, They switch everything around.
Just like in a dream, you cannot tell what was the real story and what
was an illusion.
Our reading talked about whether something is live, or if it
is a sample. They are talking about
music, but I think this relates to dreams and movies just as well. Is this a dream? Is it real? Or is it a
movie, which is a fake sample of real life.
How do we decide what is real, what is dream and how to mix
those two things?
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