T's Blog: Mike Nelson

Monday, 18 January 2010

Mike Nelson

Design exhibition | TRADING STATION ALPHA CMa | Matt's Gallery

A warehouse or storeroom environment allowing the shelving to dominate the space. The room consisted of many objects arranged in the 'storeroom', some sparse areas whilst other areas densely packed with objects collected from the area. He mixes fantasy with reality.

http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/nelson/exhibition-1.php

Nelson's work is about the SPACE BETWEEN A FILM AND ITS LITERARY REFERENCE

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Christopher Nolan | Tim Burton

Both directors have similarities in their work, films with intelligent storylines which can play with your mind. I really like the suspense and thrill created from their films. Nolan's work can be quite dark, as can Burtons but in different ways. Nolan's storyline are more serious with high visual complexity (he was heavily influenced by Blade Runner as a child). Burtons work are more about the fantasy, heavily influenced by his childhood.

I like how both directors create a really strong atmosphere in their films. Nolan uses slow camera movements adding to the drama and manages to set the scenes quite effectively for the viewer to understand its context. Burton plays with the lighting in his work expressing a more magical feel.

Although Nolan's film are told in a serious way, the atmosphere created is powering, the storylines are strong and there is always drama and suspense. His short film Doodlebug is filmed very slowly and keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat to find there is a twist to the end of the film. My favorite film is the Prestige, as i have explained earlier in the blog.

I admire Burton's use of stop frame for a film, the images are very smooth and his characters are very effective when compared to computer graphics. I prefer the use of models and sets which he used in the Nightmare Before Christmas, this was more effective than Corpse Bride which was computer generated. Corpse bride is too clean and the challenge of making a figure do something is less interesting to watch. I like how his films have a sense of surrealism to them, in particular Edward Scissorhands. The scary thought of suburbia being very monotonous, the serialism adds a twist and excitement to the films.

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