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For my self-guided field trip, I explored Edgar Arceneaux’s MIT exhibition, “Written in Smoke and Fire” which seemingly showcased 3 excerpts of cultural narratives. At first, I was confused as to what these had to do with the title of the exhibit. Nonetheless, I first focused on each part, observing the art before thinking about the relations between all of them as a whole. The first piece I saw was centered on Martin Luther King. Works that referenced him

Beryl Korot – Dachau, 1974 The Art21 piece I watched explored artist Beryl Korot’s process of putting together footage that she captured which composed of various shots of a Nazi concentration camp to create a narrative. Her process involved taking several short-form video shots, each showing a scene within the camp, where she would later line them up in a linear sequence as one single video. What this visual style would do, in Korot’s words, is to “move

The famous Japanese film Rashomon pioneered a new method of storytelling in film through use of multiple POV. Why tell a story in this way? How do multiple points of view change the way we interpret “the real story”? Have you seen any contemporary instances of this type of storytelling? My thoughts on Rashomon is that given the amount of layered storytelling we are told about the same event (but told in various perspectives or personal