MUSIC VIDEO ARTIST - PIPILOTTI RIST

PIPILOTTI RIST burst onto the international art scene with visually lush video works and multmedia installations that explore female sexuality and media culture, remixing fantasy and the everyday.

In the 1980's and 1990's Swiss born RIST made a series of tapes in which she SUBVERTED the form of music video to explore the female voice and body in pop cultural representations, merging rock music, electronic manipulation and performance.

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WORKS
During her studies RIST started to make 'SUPER 8 FILMS'. Her works last generally only a couple of minutes, and altered in their colours, speed, and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality, and the human body.

In contrast to those of many other conceptual artists, her colourful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Rist's works was initially considered by feminist art critics. Nowadays, her works are owned by the most important art collections worldwide.

'I'M NOT THE GIRL WHO MISSES MUCH' 1986


- In this video Rist shows how she dances before a camera in a black dress with uncovered breast and red lips -this is meant to be seen as a parody of female hysteria in which the body is transformed into a grotesque dancing doll.
- The images are monochromatic and fuzzy -this makes the images almost flow and blur together.
- Rists sings "I'm not the girl who misses much." Her version of the first line of the song Happiness Is a Warm Gun by John Lennon - "She's not a girl who misses much". In the end, the image becomes blue and more and more fuzzy; the sound stops.
- She uses high+low speeds in the video to produce obscuring effects

TRANSPOSICION


FRAGMENTATION


AUJOURD'HUI


LULLABY


ALLE RECHTE BEI


- In most of her clips Rist precisely cuts to the start-stop rhythm of post punk music.
- Most of her pieces also reflect her on-going interest in exploring the defects and imperfections of the video-machine (-these ideas are also meant to echo psychological and personAl mistakes)
- They also involve the merging and overlapping of different images to give a dreamlike effect.

INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES

While in the ideas process i though that i could get some inspiration through looking at various film clips which i could use as a theme or encorporate into one of my ideas.

THE KOROVA MILK BAR IN A CLOCKWORK ORANGE


SPELLBOUND - THE DREAM (DESIGNED BY SALVADOR DALI)


OPENING TO AMELIE

TRACK SELECTION PROCESS

SKA MUSIC
Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line, accented guitar, or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. In the 1960s, ska was the preferred music genre of rude boys and was also popular with British mods and skinheads.

REGGAE MUSIC
Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank.
The traditional ska beat was transformed by slowing down the tempo and in turn created reggae music.
Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues.

NEWER STYLES & SPIN OFFS
TOASTING (RAPPING)
The toasting style first used by 1960s Jamaican artists and is the act of talking or chatting over a rhythm or beat which can be improvised or prewritten. This was traditionally used in Jamaican music forms dancehall, reggae, ska, dub and lovers rock, but then this mix of talking and chanting eventually influenced the development of rapping in US HIPHOP/RAP MUSIC.

DANCEHALL -this genre developed around 1980 and is characterized by a deejay singing and rapping or toasting over raw and fast rhythms.

RAGGA/RAGGAMUFFIN -a subgenre of dancehall, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music and sampling.

REGGAETON -a form of dance music that first became popular with Latino youths in the early 1990s. It blends reggae and dancehall with Latin American genres such as bomba and plena, as well with hip hop.

REGGAE ROCK -a fusion genre that combines elements of reggae and rock music.


ALTHEA & DONNA - UPTOWN TOP RANKIN'


BACKGROUND INFO
- The young singers Althea Forrest and Donna Reid made a big surprise with their one-off hit, "Uptown Top Ranking".
- "Uptown Top Ranking" has been covered by Scout Niblett, who released it as a single in 2004. The song was also covered by Black Box Recorder and by Portishead

PROS:
- Suitable lyrics
- No existing video, not very well known song/artist 'one hit wonder' -audience will therefore have no previous image to associate with
- Generically identifiable as reggae music
- up beat happy tone -appeal to a wide range of people of different ages

CONS:
- Slightly repetitive rhythm/lyrics
- slow paced, relaxed -make hard to hook audience in through images?
- currently not a very popular genre

WE LIKE DANCING + DRESSING UP

THE BLOODHOUND GANG - DISCOVERY CHANNEL?


CHEMICAL BROTHERS - GALVANISE


FAT BOY SLIM - PRAISE YOU


These 3 videos are examples of performance based music video.
This are usually most popular as they do not have a complex narrative but have enough variety in their material that can be watched many times over.
Each video demonstrates choregraphed dance, theatrical make up and costume.

In the making of our video we will make sure that performance is one of the main elements as it has proven to be so successful previously.