Eldon Booth

Blog Question:Discuss Eldon Booths exploration of reality and illusion



This weeks topic was on moving image by Eldon Booth.this was my first time meeting Eldon on tuesday's class. because i had never done moving image before i found it really interesting to have Eldon Lecture us and how he began as an art student at M.s.v.a where we are now.Eldon talks about how he has a love for writing scripts, and how he dedicates his work on his interests of the idea in the difference between 'reality and fictionIn the Lecture i found Eldon very interesting to listen to, He talked about how he Graduated from M.s.v.a in 1999 and for me I find that cool because it gave me an idea of where my life could lead to with this course and How interesting the things i could do with a degree in B.v.a at the manukau school of visual arts, and also if he can do it than i can. In the lecture he showed us two of his short films that showed us the idea of reality and illusion for the veiwer



The first film he showed us was "Extract from Withdrawl".I really liked the idea of how he used family members as his cast for the short film instead of using hired actors. to me that was a good idea bacause he didn't have to waste any money on hired actors and would also be more comfortable being aruond family than people u don't no.In the film you see how the time slowly going on and on and you start to see the actors age, starting form the beginning is a young teenager(brother) who is seen smoking drugs, hanging out with his friends and also seen catching the train and then how it shows an old man (Grandfather) who is seen lying in the hospital bed.I liked how he uses split screen to show the two different timelines in the day and show the copmarison of the Grandson and Grandfather.He also talked about how he used the 'Amateure' style of filming using natural sound/music and the following behind them filming.much like a documentary where the veiwer is in the place of the camera and to also get to know both charaters through there actions.



For the second short-film he made a drama/documentary style of film. In the lecture during this film he talked about how a documentary on 20/20 inspired him for his style of this documentary. he talks about how he really liked the camera angles, sound and lighting that was used in that documentary and had decided to use similar ideas for his short film .but overall i like his work and find moving image very interesting