Hammer museum bedroom furnishing inspiration
June 22nd, 2009 | by admin |I saw a great exhibit at the Hammer museum in Los Angeles this weekend. I don’t remember the artist’s name unfortunately, but it was a 5 minute avant-garde short film set entirely in a bedrooom. The room was furnished in a sort of gaudy, trashy 60’s throw-back, and the actors were dressed similarly. There were many jump cuts and disjunct narrative that created a disconcerting effect, but it was woven in a masterful way much unlike many student films that I have seen which tried to do something similar. There was no music, but the sound editing was excellent as well, with the voices switching between intimate and a sort of echoing boom with an under-current of a throbbing buzzing sound that wafted in and out in accordance with the emotional intensity.
The real point of this post however is that I was inspired to remodel my bedroom furnishings in a modern, avant-garde fashion as an homage to this film… at least temporarily. I’m not sure if it will spice up my love-life or just creep people out. I do know that I will enjoy the process of one of the USA’s favorite past-time: furniture shopping, in order to accomplish this feat.
