Tuesday, 12 November 2013

What and Who is "MoreSoon"?

(http://moresoon.org/kap-bambino.htm)

More Soon simply is the name of the production company set up by Carl Burgess the director. Carl is a UK based director, film maker and sculptor that specializes in making very stunning and visually crazy videos that amaze the viewers, as well as ones that are designed to weird you out much like his Ratatat Video (http://moresoon.org/ratatat-drugs.htm)

The Biography on his website mentions "His dark, simple aesthetic lends itself to creating new worlds out of the mundane, turning objects and perceptions on their head to make visually rich, slightly twisted work." He is a very skilled artist/sculptor and the work he does, as said above, is very twisted and in no way looks normal. one example I found featured a human head sculpture that has been warped. Like you would on picture editing. This effect makes the sculpture look completely different and makes it visually disturbing (to me anyway)

Simply Put for More Soon and Carl Burgess's style is just pure emotion and visually twisted. The main style i see for his art and photography is the way he can manipulate each and everything to look weird and mesmerizing. This is probably linked to how he wants the pictures to be easy to remember. The easiest way to do that is to create things that people haven't seen before and will likely never again. The weirder the more likely they are to remember it. Carl definitely has it perfected as his work is some of the weirdest and frankly creepiest I have ever seen. Like this example below.
I am still not sure what it is. My best guess is that its a disfigured and warped human face and skull. Its a perfect example of how he likes to warp simple and normal things to a level not before seen. His videos do not tend to be as bad as his sculptures are but they do hold a certain level of weird that makes it stand out to me. For his video Ratatat he organised a group of archive actors and made them perform a variety of different poses and emotions centered around the camera. This is to sort of show how weird they can be as they are often used for adverts. He also did a version called Obsess the was made specifically to show how stock actors and footage can be really creepy and just weird.
(video is a link)



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