La Viaje A La Luna & Global Groove

Ok. so Malies film "la Viaje a la luna" amazed me. i loved the narrative and how absurd it was. i dont really understand the artistic intent because it seemed more like an actual movie to me than an art piece. (probably why i liked it so much hahaha) anyway the absurdity of the whole story is what really kept my attention. Mushrooms and aliens on the moon and being shot there in a giant cannon is genius. But like i said, i dont really get the art of it. Maybe the sets are the art (which really made the whole movie) i dont know haha but i really liked it.

Now about Nam June Paik. alot of it was pretty funny, and the message was very clear. (one day a unified culture will exist were information is highly exposed and exchanged quicker than a blink of an eye) but wat i got out of it was that it might not be a good thing. and example was the electric Chello. that thing sounded horrible compared to the real thing. was Paik saying that something was lost in the new culture? i think so. i think it meant that with all the information and useless stuff flying around to distract your senses that the real beautiful things are either lost or irrelevant. even now with our computer culture i'm sure that chello music is now irrelevant. What he was saying would happen is the same as Aldous Huxely's "Brave New World" a society where people really no longer care about important things because they have shallow things to keep there attention.

Paik's video was really more about content rather than narrative like Melies' film. both were fantastic, but the narrative Melies uses was more effective in taking my attention and interest. You only really need to see the first part of Paik's film to get the message and after a while it gets boring