Thursday, October 1, 2009

For Flora: The Tower of Babel

Flora,
This might be helpful for you to look at for your project. Note how the mise en abime you are exploring (screen within screen / utterance within utterance, in difference) echoes the form of the tower itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
excerpt: "God, seeing what the people were doing, came down and confused their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth." (I am not religious believe it or not)
—thought: consider using language as utterances (spoken fragments, phonemes / in complement or replacement for the closed captioning...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Confusion_of_Tongues.png

1 comment:

  1. thanks a lot~~
    I think the idea is very interesting,
    although I'm stil trying to figure out what can I shoot. :)


    Anyway, Thanks again!~

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