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:: Thursday, October 30, 2003 ::

I’ve pondered previously on what is the ultimate art form, capable of expressive the most different views, feelings, points and emotions. I’ve always come to the decision that right here and now the answer to that question has to be Film.
OK, so Literature can take you anywhere and explain concepts that would be very difficult in any other form, but thanks to technology Film is catching up fast. If you take out the financial incentive that is behind making most films acceptable to a Hollywood audience I’m sure pretty much any book could be converted to film. Other art forms are easier to pick off. Music can easily be represented on film, music almost always supplements the modern film and modern music is almost always supplemented by film. Painting and Photography are also easily converted, just watch any film with good cinematography to appreciate that, Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, for example, is almost like watching a moving painting. Sculpture is probably the most difficult art form to convert to film, but sculptor-turned-model-maker-turned-director Chris Cunningham proves that this is possible, with films like Flex, Come to Daddy and All is Full of Love.

What I had never considered previously is whether this situation might change in the future. Is there a new medium that may surpass films almost direct link into our two main senses? According to composer Barrington Pheloung (who may be blowing his own trumpet a little as reading between the lines he’s trying to compare himself to Mozart) Games are the new medium that will do this. I can see he has a very good point, and the technology is moving very quickly so it’s is almost impossible to predict where we will be at the end of this century. This article goes partway to explain where we might be going but there is far more potential there than is touched on.

:: Dan 30.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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