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“Look Twice” 1980: Vintage 16-mm student film on relic VHS tape (Stephen Bowlsby)
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This pair of “twin” student films repeats a single dramatic event with different visual approaches to convey two opposing world-views: ONE: The Proving Ground TWO: Fog on the Hills Made as a requirement for a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema (film production) from University of Southern California, School of Performing Arts, conferred January 1981. Shot on location at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park in the Sierra Pelona Mountains in northern Los Angeles County, California. CAST: Steve Nevil, Robin Hosmer, Joe Jolly, Steve Martell, Cathryn Bowlsby RELATED ARTIST STATEMENT (2000) "The transformations of context and visual/spatial relationships seen in Transfigured (1998) and Vision Point (1999) are characteristic of my work, from my early animated films and experimental live-action films of the 1970s to my digital experimental bitmap animation of the 1990s. For example, the scenes of the half-hour surrealist film, REM (1976), are linked by the kind of scene transitions pioneered by avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren in At Land (1944). The experimental film Splitstream (1978) uses a horizontally split screen to simulate two synchronized views of the same scene: a moving POV camera and a st…
Directors & creators
Stephen Arthur Bowlsby
Subjects
Student film, USC, Los Angeles, 16mm, 16 mm, telecine VHS transfer, relic, vintage, ethnographic, historical artifact, memorial, legacy, antique, 1970s, experimental film, drama, tragedy, irony, ambiguity, ambivalence, cinematic, cinematography, editing, cinema arts, perception, composition, visual literacy, how to read a film, film theory and criticism, psychology, sacrifice, suicide, Vancouver, Canada, Stephen Bowlsby, Stephen Arthur
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