Lucy Raven’s China Town movie is an incredible example of digital media. By piecing thousands of still photographs together, she simulated motion in a video essay about mining and the international process of materializing copper.
As far as content goes, the video is in an interesting form of art because it is so heavily focused on research. The video plays very much like a documentary, which in some ways that is exactly what it is. The focus on the contrast of the industrial and economic landscape between the United States and China paints the perfect setting for copper production, which the video details. Before this exhibit and subsequent lecture, I would not have considered this film an art form.
But when considering the technique used to piece together the work, the art part of the film is more apparent. After taking more than 7,000 photographs and recording audio for more than a year, she created an animated series using stop-motion. The technique of stop-motion is created by animating still photographic images to make an illusion of movement, which works tremendously for this project. The visual aesthetic in Raven’s film China Town is profound.
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