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MOMI

The inner architecture of the Museum of Moving Images is not what I expected upon entering the large plain, white building. I overheard one of the tour guides explain that the inspiration for the design inside the museum was inspired by the film, "2001 A Space Odyssey". Our tour of the museum started off by examining portraits of famous celebrities. We discussed about elements in the portraits that affect our perception of the actors and actresses. Those elements included how the light was directed on the celebrity, the pose he or she made and the angle the photo was taken at. After discussing about the portraits we looked at miniature models of structures. Our tour guide explained that models are used to pre plan elements such as lighting, set designing and directing in a set where a crew will film. Next, our tour guide showed us several costumes used in famous films. She explained that choosing the right costumes for a film is important because it is part of the process of disconnecting the audience from the real world to the film. I observed that some of the costumes are much more exaggerated than they would be in the real world. Exaggerating costumes in a film may be for entertainment purposes or to explicitly state that a character is poor, rich, rebellious etc. My favorite part of the tour was when we looked at Gregory Barsamian's Feral Fount. Our tour guide explained to us that Barsamian's was inspired to do the spinning animated sculpture because he wanted to combine elements of analog animation technology such as the zoetrope and the thaumatrope, and put them into one piece.