CONSTANT SIEGE

‘By Your Side’

Long portrait of a couple in distress and working it out. A study in micro facial expressions.

Purchase soundtrack ‘By Your Side’ by Cocorosie

New Order. Round & Round (Patty Version) See also: normal version, with different 80’s supermodels.

See also: Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests. If you’re a modern artist, and you think you have an original idea, odds are Andy got there in some way first.

Also also: Bill Viola’s Reverse Television, 1982

Robert Wilson’s theatrical Voom Portraits, c2005

Related: lots of talk about so-called “Long Photographs”, video/film clips of what would otherwise be a good still image.

Life Outtacontext: Anatomy of a Long Photograph (via), which shows a clip from Koyaanisqatsi, the film that is somehow even more amazing than its name:

Koyaanisqatsi: People Portraits Excerpt

Koyaanisqatsi: Jumbo Jets

All of this is also in the same family as the cinematic styles of directors Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc), and of course, their more serious grandpappy, Stanley Kubrick (2001, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket).

Also: Long Awkward Pose (“It’s simple, really. People look foolish when posing for a picture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo… then secretly videotape them the whole time.”)

And, me: Zero Feedback experiments, 2007 (“Model is simply told to “model”, and given no further instructions or feedback.”)

Zero Feedback: Suzana

Zero Feedback: Erika

Also mine: LP series 2008-