Pipilotti Rist

        Wow this girl is crazy.  She certainly proves that you can never go above and beyond in a movie.  Her video installations introduce so much color, image, music and of course, technology.  After watching her video art piece, I was eager to figure out her deal.  Her 11 minutes video piece, is combined with these flickering colors and completely random images.  Many of the images feature a woman falling.  The distortion of the images and colors are amazing.  The images become more random as the clip goes on, such as stop lights, dancing and a woman carrying a flower.  Throughout the art piece it looks as if it is all being projected from the TV which I thought was very cool.  Towards the end, there are clips of a woman stuggling and drowning.  
       I could even feel such a strong sense of her, while I was interacting on her website.  Another video of her we watched in class was called, "I'm not the girl that misses much." The girls voice speaking is extremely distorted into a very high pitched voice.  She is dancing with her breasts exposed, the pitch changes along with the screen color and the song by the Beatles, "Happiness is a Warm Gun," is incorporated with the video which I found fascinating.  And yes, I do love The Beatles.  The effects and transitions she uses are truly incredible.  

I'm not the Girl who Misses Much (1986)

          She believes in encouraging the mind and energy.  Rist uses art to try to destroy certain clichés.  Pippilotti Rist wants her audience members to forget about prejudices and free their minds.  Her happy images can also prove quite sexual.  More recently, (last year) in the Modern Museum of Art she had an exhibit with a 7354 Cubic Meters video projection, called Put Your Body Out.