Removed

My subject this week is about Removed by Naomi Uman. I thought this was quite an interesting work that we saw. It worked with a media that many consider distasteful. The pornography that she chose to use was on film and dated back from the seventies. When she removed the female figures from the film, this changed the once raunchy film into a work of art. It also changed the perspective of the viewers. The original focus on the film was on the woman for various reasons, but after Naomi carefully removed the female figures from the film the main focus of the film was gone. The dialog and the sounds of the women were still there but there was just a white void where the action was taking place. Naomi may have intended to remove the main focus of the film so that the viewer would have to focus on something else in the film that originally was just in the background. When I watched the film I still paid attention to the white void that was changing shape just because I knew that this was the part of the film that was manipulated. It kind of made me wonder what was really happening in this film. It was hard to tell by the expressions on the faces of the male characters and especially by the dialog. It just didn't seem to fit the actions of the film at times, but yet it matched up with the mouths of the characters. Naomi's unique approach to manipulating this film allowed the original focus of the film to change into a new artistic focus that doesn't allow the viewer to see the main action of the film.