Introductions Mean Everything

Meta may be meta? Sorry, I just like the play on words… This is a short video piece as an attempt to create a “meta” film although it is more likely closer to metafiction. Rather than focusing on the production drama of its creation (in my case, the re-appropriation and then editing), which metafilms seem to usually be characterized by, I was more interested in trying to create something surreal but based around the idea that you are consciously watching video (the medium, “self-consciously addresses the devices”) not fantasizing, which is an underlying theme in metafiction. So in this way I hope that the obvious re-appropriations and the pixelation make the viewer conscious of the digital medium as well as what is being displayed. I couldn’t help but try to make it into a video art piece as well though… Hopefully it is successful in some ways and is at least an intriguing piece of video art if nothing else…