Flesh side_by_side

Early video experiment made of two separate bits of video stuck together. Using masks and changing their positions using key-frames so the two pieces of video both fade to black in the middle. The mask can be seen below ( the yellow lines with square nodes connecting them), this has effect of cutting off the video along this line. As the background is black it has allowed me to lay the two videos side by side without an intersection, where you can clearly see the edge of the video. This has the effect of the two videos appearing to be one. It also covered up where at one point a hand flicks across the background which revealed the border of the footage. The edge of the mask was also feathered which meant if the video brighter flesh did cross the mask it was less obvious as it faded into the black rather than hitting a sharp line.

I am pleased with this experiment. I like the sharpness of the image which was filmed in the photography studio, with lighting, giving the dark background. It was fun attempting to collage video further literally laying and sticking the video side by side. To develop here more footage could be imported so I would be collaging 3 or more individual bits of video. I could also using some gentle distortion to warp the  flesh more creating more layered forms.

Questions here: What is that?

If you cannot tell what something is, it lands in the middle ground of obscenity and decency: ambiguity. Ambiguity is another recurring motif of my work, look into this.