Digital Narratives.

The story I enjoyed the most was the video “only a dream”. It is about a man whose sons leave for the United States and he follows them there only to return. He realizes that the U.S. is not the same as the movies and he has little value there. His son dies trying to cross the border. It is a sad story, but I enjoyed it because at the end he talks about how he is happy now and he is hopeful for a better future. He has his own business in Mexico, and he is trying to rebuild himself. I like what he had to say about having more value in Mexico than in the U.S., I feel like that is not something people can understand until they experience it.

I want to talk about the Art Institute. I will probably use photography, to photograph different paintings. I’m not quite sure what I want to say about it yet, but it has had a huge impact on me and I think it would be an interesting topic. I really want to use video, but I can’t figure out how I would go about doing that or why, but I’m interested in making movies. I’m not even sure you can video in the museum. Maybe I can ask people about there experience with the art institute, what they liked and why. And I could use photographs of the paintings they liked. Maybe I could paint reproductions. That would take a long time. I could make rough reproductions. I have a painting I made with my dad when I was six or seven and it is a bad reproduction of Van Gogh’s bedroom, which I saw in the Art Institute the other day. I could use that.