1. document each instance of motion. How does this contribute to our imagination of the space?
Swallow flying in, circling the room, and flying back out the window. taking photos out of files, friends leaning in closer to look at the photos, seasonally moving lights, flames, a running man with knife, flicking frames, a dog running.
I think that most of the motions in this article serve to illustrate the vastness of the space he is attempting to describe. Even the bird flying in illustrates the nomadic desire to explore unknown spaces. For nomads and animals it is for survival, for children it is for the pleasure of discovery and mystery. Almost training.
2. Describe two scenes from the videos/films screened in class where the medium caused the ordinarily invisible to become visible.
I think that any slow change over a long period of time--like growing hair, or a child getting taller--is essentially invisible. Everyone has experienced this. You don't notice that there's been any change at all until whatever is in question is quite different than it was originally. Without a photo or video showing it, it's very hard to notice. The melting ice video that we watched in class is a good example of that. To the artist, the change must have felt painstakingly slow until the very end, when the change was very noticeable.
I think that also the changing attitudes of people can be invisible. Feelings are not visible, but we perceive them as social animals. In film, the changing lighting, the choice of how scenes are cut together, and the actors all make emotions clearer than they are in reality. In a primitive example, the short film of the neighbors fighting over the flower shows very clearly a change in attitude when their faces are painted to show how they have become barbaric. This is usually invisible to people. This scene showed that shift in almost a literal way.
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