GMU:Immersive Essays/Luka Friedland: Difference between revisions

The first thing that seems crucial to me when thinking about web video platforms and web series specifically is the initial materialization of ideas<ref name="ftn1">A person who sometimes talks in interviews about his relationship with getting ideas and ''fishing'' for ideas is David Lynch, and I’m in several aspects in line with his approach towards ideas, writing them down and connecting seemingly unrelated things over time. See for example: '''Myers, Scott (2020):''' ''How to Write a Script: David Lynch.'' In: www.gointothestory.blcklst.com. URL: https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/how-to-write-a-script-david-lynch-b20d65f3018b [09.02.2023, 02:41]; '''American Film Institute (2011):''' ''David Lynch on Ideas.'' In: www.youtube.com. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RFMCmfRmc [09.02.2023, 02:56]; '''dlftv (2009):''' ''David Lynch: ‚Ideas Are Like Fish.‘'' In: www.youtube.com. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGb3WFEhLQ [15.02.2023, 16:47]. (Of course, fishing is always a very brutal cultural practice that should be forbidden entirely, but imagining your inner self sitting at a little metaphorical pond waiting for idea-fishs is a very striking visual representation in my opinion.) See also the documentary: ''David Lynch – The Art Life''. Dir.: Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Jon Nguyen. US and DK 2016.

A short announcement with the overarching title<ref name="ftn5">Titles are always a difficult thing and, according to Rudi Nuss, an art form in themselves. Generally, I prefer longer titles/poetic lines that open up ''Assoziationsräume'' over short and bold and boring ones (for these kinds of titles I would criticize for example most AAA-games). I think that a title should convince in itself, even if the actual content maybe doesn’t. The art of giving a title to an artwork is very much underappreciated.</ref> is then displayed. I chose RICHTUNGSLEGUNG (idk how to translate that, it’s not even a “real” German word, but a poetic neologism) for this, inspired by me remembering Anja Utler’s poem ''Rechnungslegung'', that I came across in 2017<ref name="ftn6">See: '''Utler, Anja (2017):''' ''Rechnungslegung.'' Republished from: Utler, Anja (2011): ''ausgeübt. Eine Kurskorrektur.'' Edition Korrespondenzen, Wien 2011. In: www.bundeswettbewerb-lyrix.de. URL: https://www.bundeswettbewerb-lyrix.de/wettbewerb/teile-plastik [19.02.2023, 18:24].</ref>. This rather conceptual poem consists of a table with the task to form 10 correct sentences out of the fragments about loss of species, nature destruction and pollution. It is a very open form for a poem, which I really like, kind of a construction kit that like a game requires active participation by its audience. And with its open-ness and unfininished-ness I thought that this really fits for my stumbling into 360 videos and video essays and so on, eventhough I opened up the title even more by replacing the Rechnung/calculation part of it with Richtung/direction, because I also thought about one of the most Alman/German things to do, which is hiking, and the hiking trail signs, pointing in lots of directions, while also remaining a bit cryptic and even imprecise at times.

<span style="background-color:transparent;">depicted: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">Luka Friedland</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">, stumbling-</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">stepping</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> into the world of 360 videos, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">glitching, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">accompanied by some lines from SOPHIE’s </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">''Faceshopping''</span>