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Thursdav. December 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Arts/Entertainment
Students' videos get exposure at film festival
By KIRK ADAMS
Staff writer
Two KU media arts students received national exposure when their videos were shown at the 1987 American Film Institute Video Festival in Los Angeles in October.
Luke Jordan, Detroit special student, produced "White Light/ White Heat. Clark Jarmison, Lawrence Dance, short video called "Dance of Creation."
The two videos were nominated for the screening by Lucyann Kerry, assistant professor of theater and media arts, who supervised the production of both works.
Kerry said that the AFI was the major showcase for U.S. video artwork. She said that work shown there received exposure in the national media arts community.
The event was attended by media arts professionals and members of the Los Angeles show business companies Hollywood producers and directors.
Jamison's video is a 3½-minute film. It starts with footage of cells under a microscope and changes to ocean tides, waterfalls, snakes, birds, butterflies, tigers and fish. Interspersed are scenes from human
life and technology, such as dog sledding, a human fetus, a locomotive and rockets. There are also scenes with supernove and views of Earth from space.
"It's to show that all life is a舞 from the smallest atom to the largest galaxy," Jamison said. "As the pace gets faster, we see man's technology come in."
An Indian sculpture of Shiva, the Hindu god of dance, appears throughout the video.
"He dances the world in and out of existence." Jamison said.
Jamison edited the film to go with an Indian raga, traditional Indian music, by Ravi Shankar.
"It's sort of like a collage. It's footage I got from several different sources and edited it together to the music." he said.
Jamison said that he spent more than 30 hours editing the film.
Jordan's video was based on the gangster movie "White Heat" starring James Cagney. Jordan rewrote some of the script and chose scenes that he wanted to include in his video. Then, with classmates, he filmed the video.
on the run and his relationship with his wife, mother and a friend.
The video highlights a bank robber
Jordan said that he wanted to see whether he could reproduce a full-length movie in a shorter version. Although he would lose much of the movie's plot, he wanted to try to keep the characters intact.
The video fades to white between scenes for transitions. Jordan focused on many still objects to refer to locations he considered important to the story, such as a porch railing or a refrigerator.
He said that his video also was, for him, an investigation of how videomaking was different from photography.
The original film is set in a log cabin. Jordan's is set in a more modern home. In Jordan's version, the robber wears a Champion spark plug T-shirt. Another difference is a kitchen table. The kitchen table. Jordan was interested in how those changes would affect the movie.
He said, "I was interested in seeing what would happen when you remove something from its original context and you just sort of went with it to see what happened."
Clark Jamison, Lawrence senior.
Luke Jordan, Detroit special student.
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