oil on videotape
film that brings art to life
Does reading the history and analysis of artworks or hearing a tour guide speak about them ever make you wonder whether any of that information is true? Everyday people read explanations and interpretations of art. They want facts and answers, so they take it as such. Oil on Videotape is an experimental film that explores the idea of interpreting art, its meaning and backstory. It critiques the confidence of people that take assumptions, guesses and theories as facts, educating the world about it. How do we ever know what the artist had in mind? Art is created to look at it, think about it, to make up stories, creating billions of interpretations of one work. Explaining art kills it. Takes out the soul. Becoming the characters, the director creates her own ideas and visions of the paintings, that are imaginative and not factual. The characters from the Renaissance paintings are transformed, the narratives come to life, becoming moving paintings that can be a playing field for interpretation of your own.