Date of Award
Spring 6-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Digital Media
First Advisor
Mariela Yeregui
Second Advisor
Africanus Okokon
Third Advisor
Shangyang Fang
Abstract
Following Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (1984) filming locations from Houston, Texas to Los Angeles, California, I use a 16mm Bolex camera to capture the vastness of the American West. The footage draws me to reminisce about snippets of my everyday life. I contemplate how we perceive the world through analog optical apparatuses and how memories are multidimensional yet fragile. Our recollections of people and places can be distorted, unrecognizable, and fictitious. These memories would eventually diminish with the passing of time. By converting the filmmaking back and forth between analog and digital filmmaking, with the loss of information during the process of recording and recreating, Everything Comes Full Circle is my attempt to remember things that will soon be forgotten.
Recommended Citation
Yang, Lilan, "Everything comes full circle" (2022). Masters Theses. 852.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/852
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View exhibition online: Lilan Yang, Everything Comes Full Circle