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Marilyn Minter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj5nygOPW9Q This video definitely works well in the anxiety induced and surreal domain of video art. I thought this video showed an interesting take on material study and textures, while being incredibly strange at the same time. The score of the video added to how strange it was considering it was such a dissonant and unidentifiable sound. Andy Warhol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejr9KBQzQPM Watching his video of eating a hamburger was interesting. I like the idea of making art out of something incredibly ordinary that anyone does. I wondered the whole time if something else would happen, and I think that was part of the video's point is to have you watching in anticipation the whole time. Candice Breitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQYbME67Z5o Her videos certainly have uniqueness to them and I can see them as being early versions of the videos on youtube now with people singing harmonies. What's so cool about i

Shirin Neshat I found the video to be a mixture of intriguing and unsettleting, the unsettling part of it mostly having to do with how the video was scored and the dissonance included it in as the description said to listen as loud as possible. I think the black and white add to the ambiguity of the film as well as providing a very intense focus and allowance for contrast between black and white, similarly to how in our world it's very easy to make things out that are black and white yet things begin to lose clarity as they fit into grey areas. The scene cuts with mirroring of the previous shot were done well, and I think whoever made this video accomplished their goal of it being a tribute well. I went and watched some of the artist's original work to follow this so I could see what her work actually looked like, and I think the tribute was successful in adopting the artists style and getting across a similar message that women are often seen but unheard. The choices in back

Stop motion! https://youtu.be/9ppvmgSklFg

I was extremely interested by Kara walker's video and her utilization of both actual people in live action as well as shadow puppets along with what I assume is paper cut stage design/stenciling. I like that there were cuts of text within the piece that echoed that of silent films, which both black and white, as well as popular during the days of slavery once they became a widely utilized medium. It was definitely a unique use of light, shadow, human movement, as well as puppeteering.  The BLU, William Kentridge, and PES videos are all ones that I've seen before but I always appreciate them as unique and fun ways of using stop motion, particularly William Kentridge mostly because I appreciate his use of charcoal stop motion. Charcoal is a medium that always shows a lot of movement anyway as it's a very gestural medium, so I think it lends itself well to stop motion film. BLU is incredibly innovative in his use of not only spray paints/roller paint, but of integrating o