Reading blog- video art article

I read the article on video art but I am unsure of who the author is of the article. In the article, the author discusses some concepts of cinema and one argument that is presented is the fact that cinema must stop using a storyline or narrative and fully develop the concepts of film images and techniques. I have actually had the chance to view video art before. In fact, the artist took clips of scenes of already produced movies and removed the sound from the film. One that I remember included a scene from Top Gun in which they show the interaction between Tom Cruise’s character and the female instructor in the movie. Although I am sure that this piece of artwork was not used to show how film can fully develop the different elements of cinema but more to show how human interactions can occur without speech. Nevertheless, what was interesting was how the scene would cut back and fourth between the two characters in close up shots to show the facial expression of the characters as they interacted with one another. Everything about this piece of work has some form of artistic value from the interaction of the actors themselves, to how the scene was film, to how the video was viewed on the video screen. We often don’t think of the movies and videos that we view as art. As the article states, we often think of our TV’s as pieces of furniture and not as a medium that can be used to view artwork. I really appreciate the cinema lecture as well as this article because now I am able to see how much more valuable a TV set is in the artistic world. Along with this, having an understanding of the basic elements of cinema allows me to place more artistic value on the films that I view.