In comparing Metropolis and Amalia Ulman: Excellences and Performance, there were many similarities and differences. Some similarities between the two are that they are both very formal and professional looking. Metropolis is a black and white film about the difference between two classes. Amalia Ulman: Excellences and Performances is formated to be for an exhibition in a museum. She uses props, sets and locations, mixed with photoshop to get her message across.
Some of the differences between the two has to do with the time. In the Amalia Ulman blog, she talks about how she uses social media to help with her plan to script her performance. Obviously, social media influencing is a new concept to society and has just recently been around since 2012. In this article, it says “Critic Brian Droitcour has described the rise of social media as a rebalancing of image-making power: the “aestheticization of everyday life in social media…has leeched the authority of image-making from mass media and from art.” She shares her emotion and passion for this through her words, so her viewers can read everything she is doing. In the Metropolis film, there are no words in the entire movie, just music. The emotion is shown through the movie by moving the tempo and pitch up and down. The story behind this is about a wealthy son of a city master that has to overcome the separation of classes within the city and bring all people together.
Metropolis is definitely more of a gruesome movie than one would think, such as it is exemplified in this clip below. It is more gruesome because it is a movie instead of a blog website. Movies like this can capture emotions much more easily to the viewer than books and blogs can.
The Amalia Ulman exhibition itself, not the blog post on the website, is much more feministic and scandalized. In specifics, “She pretended to have a breast augmentation, posting images of herself in a hospital gown and with a bandaged chest, using a padded bra and Photoshop to manipulate her image.” She wants to try to get across that it is supposed to be a consumerist fantasy lifestyle.
I think that the two are both on the opposite ends of the spectrum and attract vastly different audiences. The Excellence and Performance exhibition is for a younger crowd, mostly women, who are interested in art and expressionism. The Metropolis is mainly for an older generation, maybe the boomer generation, who could have been around during the 1930’s and could watch movies without any words. Not everyone can do that.
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