Enter the Void (Enter the Void) - sockkpuppett - Club Vivid Premieres I really want people to sit and watch this (because trust me, CVV was not the place to analyze) and figure out what we got from this. I'd pair it with Caged Bird but it isn't a set. I can't explain....HELP ME VERBALIZE IN COMMENTS PLZ!!!!
I have thoughts about how this vid is related to Caged Bird! For my money, they both seem to be visual/auditory meditations on three-dimensional space incorporating everything from the geometric patterns of the observed environment to a deep exploration of the interiority and exteriority of spaces and the people in them...by the time Lum hits her groove in these vids, though, it feels like she's exploring fifth- or sixth-dimensional space somehow. Like, sure, we've all heard time described as a fourth dimension, but I'd like to add the fifth for, say, the hypnotic-but-shapely experience of the music in these vids and what it adds to the overall experience. And a couple extra dimensions to try to capture the multiple layers of three-dimensionality the vids are exploring...like, OK, in Enter the Void we get to explore the bright-light cityscape AND the interior spaces of rooms and dance clubs and hallways and tunnels and bedrooms AND the interior spaces of the human body in extreme close up (OVUM!) AND THEY ARE ALL ON THE SAME LEVEL, THERE IS NO DISTINCTION. Cling hard to your sense of perspective and your left-brain logical thinking and you can probably continue to distinguish each layer of exploration and mark it by category, but I think the vid demands that the viewer give into the EXPERIENCE and go with the flow. It's SEX, right? It's people fucking in the LOVE hotel and the sperm hits the ovum and tries to enter because that's what the sperm and ovum do. But in this vid all spaces are the void, the vagina, and the camera spins us in and out and around and through it to explore the totality of the act and of the human impulse, as embodied in the copulatory experience, which is everywhere and everything.* (Or possibly it is when some totally tripping painter imagines it all that way--yeah, I think there's a framing device in there, but you can take it or leave it--he's just another human being caught up in the experience.) With pretty lights and a great groove. Apparently, some dude made what I'm guessing is a pretty self-indulgent film about this, but I have to say I think I prefer Lum's condensed version.
So, if "Enter the Void" is the squirming-around-on-the-bed-in-a-sexual-haze version of the six-dimensional exploration of interiority and exteriority, then Caged Bird is the, well, caged bird exploration of it. The rigid, constrained version that just hints at the lushness of what is contained within. It does similar things with exploring the geometry of spaces (interior space of rooms and hallways and staircases and exterior spaces of patterned gardens, large hedges and giant statuary and minute spaces of patterned objects and human forms and echoed images all the way down/through in mirrors and photographs), forming them all into a meditation on place and space and mysterious, vaguely ominous relationships between the sexes.
So, obviously, I'm only scratching the surface of something huge in these vids, but there are some thoughts on the subject for you to ponder, anyway. ;)
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I really want people to sit and watch this (because trust me, CVV was not the place to analyze) and figure out what we got from this. I'd pair it with Caged Bird but it isn't a set. I can't explain....HELP ME VERBALIZE IN COMMENTS PLZ!!!!
I have thoughts about how this vid is related to Caged Bird! For my money, they both seem to be visual/auditory meditations on three-dimensional space incorporating everything from the geometric patterns of the observed environment to a deep exploration of the interiority and exteriority of spaces and the people in them...by the time Lum hits her groove in these vids, though, it feels like she's exploring fifth- or sixth-dimensional space somehow. Like, sure, we've all heard time described as a fourth dimension, but I'd like to add the fifth for, say, the hypnotic-but-shapely experience of the music in these vids and what it adds to the overall experience. And a couple extra dimensions to try to capture the multiple layers of three-dimensionality the vids are exploring...like, OK, in Enter the Void we get to explore the bright-light cityscape AND the interior spaces of rooms and dance clubs and hallways and tunnels and bedrooms AND the interior spaces of the human body in extreme close up (OVUM!) AND THEY ARE ALL ON THE SAME LEVEL, THERE IS NO DISTINCTION. Cling hard to your sense of perspective and your left-brain logical thinking and you can probably continue to distinguish each layer of exploration and mark it by category, but I think the vid demands that the viewer give into the EXPERIENCE and go with the flow. It's SEX, right? It's people fucking in the LOVE hotel and the sperm hits the ovum and tries to enter because that's what the sperm and ovum do. But in this vid all spaces are the void, the vagina, and the camera spins us in and out and around and through it to explore the totality of the act and of the human impulse, as embodied in the copulatory experience, which is everywhere and everything.* (Or possibly it is when some totally tripping painter imagines it all that way--yeah, I think there's a framing device in there, but you can take it or leave it--he's just another human being caught up in the experience.) With pretty lights and a great groove. Apparently, some dude made what I'm guessing is a pretty self-indulgent film about this, but I have to say I think I prefer Lum's condensed version.
So, if "Enter the Void" is the squirming-around-on-the-bed-in-a-sexual-haze version of the six-dimensional exploration of interiority and exteriority, then Caged Bird is the, well, caged bird exploration of it. The rigid, constrained version that just hints at the lushness of what is contained within. It does similar things with exploring the geometry of spaces (interior space of rooms and hallways and staircases and exterior spaces of patterned gardens, large hedges and giant statuary and minute spaces of patterned objects and human forms and echoed images all the way down/through in mirrors and photographs), forming them all into a meditation on place and space and mysterious, vaguely ominous relationships between the sexes.
So, obviously, I'm only scratching the surface of something huge in these vids, but there are some thoughts on the subject for you to ponder, anyway. ;)