Well
watching a play in the cinema was interesting. A View from the Bridge with
Mark Strong (a wonderful performance) but for me the whole point of theatre is that it
operates within physical space with real living people so to have the experience
mediated through film was a little unsatisfactory. This was especially exposed
when considering the language of film with the framing, close up, wide shot,
pan etc all seen through the film director’s eyes. The game play in Proteus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_%28video_game%29
is just forward backward left right through a highly pixelated (think flat mind
craft) but this simplicity is quite beautiful and all this happens whilst
working out what the objective is – the trick is to let everything music and
visuals flow over you – rethinking what a video game is for me – and again it
all appears to be about life-death.
Meanwhile back to painting and a return to rebuilding the
house – almost there.
