Bill Viola

Hatsu-Yume(First Dream) 1981, Single-channel videotape, colour, stereo sound. 56 minutes.
Hatsu-Yume is a view of the worl shaped by a dream in Japan. It is a 56 minute video woven around Viola's observations of and reactions to Japanese culture adn landscape.
"Ever thought you heard voices in the back or your mind, or come across uncertain memories deep inside your consciousness?"


DVD Blurb
"...equating light and dark with life and death. As in a dream, we frequently can't tell if these worldless streams of image and sound are unfolding in real time, slow motion or time lapse. Hatsu-Yume is the work of a visionary poet of image and sound."

I think this has a similar concept to the video that we made. I think that whilst people are watching our video they will be all asking that same things that are,.. is it real, imaginery or a representation of someones state of mind? There is now definate native of explanation to the video it is open to interpretation with no correct answer; it is what it is and what it wants to be. The three of us all have very different interpretations and ideas about what our videos is about. I am sure that Carol and Ally, as I won't, express the ways in which we each interpret the video. This is so not to influence the way in which 'you' watching the video will then come to think of it, it is left for 'you' to interpret the video the way in which 'you' want to.