» My next reference: One piece of white fabric and a few curly locks
The famous video of Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, (2001) directed by Dawn Shadworth, which picked up 5 awards for Creative & Design. And my next artistic reference.
I remembered thinking there was something different about this video I was when I first saw it. And after realising it had artistic merit, I had to upload a mention on here. Definitely something about the body and eye movement in the video that is central to the surrealism I aim for in my photographic mind’s eye when I create my own work. Or at least, I will aim for after seeing this video again today.
From the car sequence, to the famous white dress, to the waving head of curls at the last scene, the video is fascinating in even just how it manages to present Kylie’s body as infinitely tall whilst maintaining her 5ft-3 impiness. Ms Minogue is a beautiful woman, but most pop stars are, and most pop star videos exaggerate their beauty mostly in banal or cliched ways, but this video is something a bit more experimentative. Futuristic, yes, but that wasn’t the main appeal to me - it was more the halo of light behind her head as she writhes high-angle above the camera in the white dress - the dress which seems to cover her up and yet allow her to be completely naked at the same time; the way in which she emerges into the frame with a head of bouncing ringlets two thirds through the song, backdropped by a new dark cityscape.
A little ironic influence could perhaps be seen in Ave Aniela!
References for the above images:
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March 24th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
[...] Original post by Miss Aniela [...]
March 26th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Hi Aniela!. I find your work very interesting and beautiful. I love your surrealistic selfportraits, especially those with diferent versions of you in the same place.
I added you on my webpage (http://www.freewebs.com/kiicila). I hope you don’t have any problem with that.
au revoir!
loo.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:40 am
I recently saw the original costume in the ongoing Kylie exhibition at the V&A - wow! I await your creation with bated breath …
Any more news on your exhibition?
March 26th, 2007 at 10:11 am
thanks @ loocila, the blog is fine.
@ Jeremy - where is this Kylie exhibition?
I don’t expect to be embarking on one particular inspired piece right now, but i think the influence from the video will creep in somewhere sooner or later!
Exhibition still being organised, happening 3-30th April, I expect to post another upload on Flickr about it closer to the time.
Thanks for your message. x
March 27th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Details on Kylie exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/kylie/
March 28th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Hi Miss Aniela,
do you know you made the first (internet) page of the most important italian newspaper (La Repubblica)?
You are described as the phenomenon of Flickr.
Indeed your photos are hot. Congratulations!
(http://www.repubblica.it/index.html March 28 2007)
March 29th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Ideas, ideas. Everytime I read your blog I either run outside with my camera, or get out my sewing machine, sketch pad, or start a new art project on the computer.
You are more than an artist, you are a muse.
-Gary Watts
Seattle, WA. USA
March 29th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Here is a direct link to the repubblica article, and a translation.
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http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/gente/miss-aniela/1.html
British Miss Aniela is super popular on Flickr, not only because she’s beautiful, but also because she is an excellent self-portrait artist; usually her self-portraits are re-touched with photoshop. She is also specialized in pictures in which she clones herself, appearing multiple times on the same image. Of polish origin, Natalie Daniela Dybisz (her real name) is 21 years old and she learnt photography by herself, she creates almost only self-portraits and she claims that she doesn’t spend more than 20 minutes to re-touch her pictures. Speaking about the web she said: “sharing my pictures on the web is what keeps me going and all the feedback from the community is very useful, but I dream of showing my work in a real art exhibition one day.”
March 30th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
thanks alot @ gary for both posts!
April 7th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Are you familiar with the video for the Kylie Minogue song ‘Come Into My World’ directed by Michel Gondry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaiw3Qqx1Rk
Could this be another time Kylie’s video work has been a reference point for you, albeit one on a subconscious level?