Jamie Stirling
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Alternative Film and Video Practice: A Written Blog
WEEK 1: Introduction As a mature student entering my final year studying Film Production at Brunel University London, I have decided to take a module on alternative film - or to name it properly, Alternative Film and Video Practice. I’m always interested in film as a creative art away from the business of film, away from film as a purely entertainment medium for commercial purposes. The first week of studying alternative film certainly gave insight into film as something other than a commercial product.
By Jamie Stirling3 months ago in Art
I Binge-watched 107 Films in 27 Days
So, I guess I should start this piece by telling you all a little something about the person writing it -that being me- and what lead to this article. I am a film school graduate who, prior to the pandemic, had been using my very expensive film school education to work a low paid job in the despatch department of a Media company. “Living the dream” some might say.
By Jamie Stirling3 years ago in Geeks
affreux Survivante
The below seems to be a stream of consciousness that was fired across the cosmos from a distant planet, that orbited a distant star, moments before that planet was partially destroyed. From what we are able to observe of that far off region of space, it seems a planet that was once capable of supporting life now exists as a cluster of rocks orbiting a star that once gave that planet warmth and light, gave it life. The below message was unusually transmitted as pure energy, that is to say it was attached to particles of light rather than a radio wave. Take this as an oversimplified explanation, imagine a small star or ball of light racing through the universe like an asteroid rather than a wave and you’ll have an idea how we first observed the travelling ball of energy. It was the unusual nature of that light travelling through the universe that drew our attention to it. It would take us many years to find the message attached to the photons and many more years to roughly translate it. The below is a loose translation, we do not know much about the world it originated from or what that world looked like. We do not know if the life on that planet was hominid-like, though the message seems to indicate that life on that planet evolved down a similar route as our own. We do not know what trees or guns would have looked like or if their version of a “farmhouse” is similar to our own, we have simply used our imagination to attach meanings and concepts as we understand them to a completely alien message. Specific names, such as the names of tribes or locations, of course cannot be translated. It also seems that the message was not sent through a deliberate process but was instead the anguished cry across the cosmos of a life form in pain, suffering and likely dying. How any of this is possible is beyond our current understanding of the laws of physics.
By Jamie Stirling3 years ago in Futurism