As assigned by Franz Werner.
One of my assignments at RISD was to watch the 1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist, then create a series of 10 glass slides to “illustrate” the film absractly. Many of my classmates used markers, glitter, string, and other various materials to make a mostly transparent image on the glass slide. We were to present the series to the class using a projector, which would completely change the composition since a lot of the materials were opaque. I used a different process, though.
I made 10 compostions, and I even used the glass slides, but I used paper clippings from old magazines to recreate scenes and themes from the movie. Mine were somewhat more literal images with a human presence. Since the images I had to use were so small, and they were from old printed materials, the compositions had a sort of Neo-Impressionist feel to them when viewed on the screen or at a larger size. Any tears in the paper were amplified, and looked like torn cloth. Smeared inks, stains, and tape, and torn edges became a dominant part of the image. To present them as assigned, I scanned the collages and printed them on a acetate, then put them back into the glass slides.
Below are my 10 slides:
Have you had this assignment or something similar? I’d love to see what you made. Feel free to link to your project in the comments.
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