Authors

In Two Dogs and a Ball, the filmmaker seems to  be the author of the film. The ball, being an interest of the dogs in the film is obviously the controlling factor of the dogs. But the question is, what is the ball was not a natural interest of the dogs? Would the author of the film still be the filmmaker? I think that there can be many arguments that can be made for this film in terms of who the author is. Some may even be that the ball itself is the author of this film. I say its the filmmaker to to the ball inability to move by itself without an outside force acting on it. The ball moved because the filmmaker moved it. But I also give some authorship to the dogs due to their movements of following the ball and changing stances. The main author is the filmmaker because there would be no constant activity without the ball movements.

Week 4

In Semiotics of a Kitchen, I found the film very interesting in the way that there was the unordinary in the unordinary. Let me explain. Semiotics of the Kitchen presents the ABC's through kitchen supplies, something you don't see everyday. 

With the film on an unordinary subject, the film goes down a path that it seems like the other films we have watched so far do not go down. This path is entertainment. Experimental media seems to not entertain the way it used to due to the Hollywood cinema. A lot of the entertainment value has decreased as the history of film grew longer. Experimental media relates much to early cinema, when the film camera was a new invention and the cinema as we know it now, was in development. Filming experimental media was the first step of cinema, and what we are viewing in class is what seems like a revival of early cinema. I wish this experimental media viewing was more entertaining, although it is very interesting. 

So thats the unordinary, now the unordinary within the unordinary. We have the ABC's of the kitchen, and we are presented in a "show-and-tell" type way of a kitchen instrument that starts with a given letter of the alphabet. Entertainment is made when the unordinary way each instrument is presented. Many the tools are presented with unconventional, violent actions. Knives are used in a stabbing motion and the pan is reacting a flip in a fast vigorous motion looking like it is meant to harm someone. That is how the unordinary within the unordinary is presented.