Bas Jan Ader "I'm too sad to tell you" (Personal Work)

This is a really strange but powerful video peace’s, in it’s self, it’s very simple the camera angle never changes the lighting is constant, he stay’s just off to the right of the shot for the duration of the video, yet it’s still fascinating to watch, if not discomfiting at the same time, after all it is a man crying for 3:23, which in its self raises questions, why’s he crying along with the title I’m too sad to tell you, gives you an idea that something bad has happened but you can only ever speculate as to what, which is partly why I like it, it makes you have to think, but at the same time I don’t like it it’s a man crying that’s something that is hard to deal with, I for one don’t handle people crying very well I never know what to say, so to watch someone cry for three minutes, is a strange feeling, especial when you can’t even try to reach them, as well as that the fact that you can’t hear him crying is also strange, you can see him, but there’s no sound, it creates a strange sensation where your visually connected but there’s no sound to anchor you to the subject, yet when watching it, in my head I could almost hear crying, I could imagine what it would sound like, which is strange. Personally this is a really interesting piece of work, I like how simple it is, yet how much is can make you think, this work will also be going into my sketch book because it relates to my personal project as well as my video work for my installation, I plan on using similar framing for my video work when I re shoot it, because making it closer a more personal, I feel will improve my work.