In both of Jack Goldstein's The Knife and The Chair, the objects being filmed are mostly defined by the light, both blending into the background (the chair more so than the knife) constructing a contained space.
The Knife was interesting to me because it reminded me of those horrible loading bars on flash websites that lack immediacy. For me the light slowly being reflected on the knife created tension and a slow passage of time in space with no sense of depth. The instance when the "bluish" light started to reflect I had actually thought that there was no light being reflected because it blended in with the background really well. The knife remains static, light is the only thing that creates a passage of time.
The Chair functioned in a similar way, except for in this film The Chair was not given movement through light, but the light defined form. The chair appears really shiny, almost like its coated in tar or wet paint. Movement is seen through the accumulation of paper/feather like material falling upon it, demonstrating a passage of time in a seemingly boundless space lacking depth.
The Knife was interesting to me because it reminded me of those horrible loading bars on flash websites that lack immediacy. For me the light slowly being reflected on the knife created tension and a slow passage of time in space with no sense of depth. The instance when the "bluish" light started to reflect I had actually thought that there was no light being reflected because it blended in with the background really well. The knife remains static, light is the only thing that creates a passage of time.
The Chair functioned in a similar way, except for in this film The Chair was not given movement through light, but the light defined form. The chair appears really shiny, almost like its coated in tar or wet paint. Movement is seen through the accumulation of paper/feather like material falling upon it, demonstrating a passage of time in a seemingly boundless space lacking depth.
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