ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE THOUGHT IN MOTION
The two clips of film allocated to Studio B - Group ii, Perfume and Labyrinth are both films that play with the mental fragility of the characters. In Perfume the main character, Grenouille, falls in love with the smell of a girl, as apposed to the girl herself, showing what we percieve as a mental infragility. In contrast to this, in Labyrinth, Jareth the Goblin King, played by David Bowie, uses the Escher inspired staircase and the play with gravity to confuse the viewer and again create a state of mental infragility. The installation is centred round a gyroscope which is intended as a metaphor for a confused mind. This links into the adjoining film created around the mental infragility of a person and their misunderstanding of their own identity.
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