Last week's digital symposium, presented by Diana Heiss and Sian Meeds (incredibly sorry for the misspelling), detailed the broad genre of Digital Film. Digital Film is a broad media that can cover performance art, alter the viewer's sense of space/time, or be created through computer graphics. Much of the presentation focused on the political impact that Digital Film can have, which lead to a heavy bias in the presentation itself. Although political, many of the clips of films shown were extremely compelling, such as the piece done by Regina Jose Galindo. Galindo had walked down the streets of Guatamala City, occasionally dipping her feet into a white basin of human blood. This caused her to leave behind a trail of bloody footprints from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace.Through this walk, Galindo protested the corrupt constitutional court and military dictatorship that the country had been experiencing.
Film was illustrated as an extremely fluid medium, allowing the transferability of time by bringing the past into context. This can also be said about Photography, which was also presented during the symposium. Photography was shown to be the most often used and culturally integrated medium. Despite the symposium being about both digital film and photography, the presentation was dominated by the digital film aspect of it. This caused the photography portion of the presentation to be very brief and strained, with the viewers only able to see a small array of portraits.
While this presentation was not the most compelling presentation, it certainly was enlightening on digital film making. However, the presentation was quite slow, with some clips being unnecessarily long and boring the viewers. The choice of films was also biased and lacked breadth. The range of photography shown was small and did not capture the extent of things that can be shown through photography.
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