The Idea about Eldon Booth Video Work

In my opinion, Eldon Booth is an apprentice and a video technician who did a lot of moving image works, such as experimental video shot, practice works, and the documentary video shot.

First, to review his work I like one of his film called “5 Good Reasons,” because the composition is really great and the characters were playing the important roles, and the point is their conversation and we can conscious about so many meaning in this film. There were two characters in this film, one is psychologist and another person presented the patient, both they were told about the death, disorder in the street, diseases, and some of themselves problems. In the beginning of the film until the end of the film, I saw a lot of film technical which he made in every scene, for example, the montage was the most shown on the scenes, when the patient described one topic about the death, the scene changed into another screen about the figure which showed in the hospital and there was no one in the ward, also the screen presented the black and white scene, this obviously to show the death atmosphere in the empty space.

Secondly, I like the movie which he made “Withdrawal,” this looks like the documentary movie and shows the real-life about the grandfather and grandson. The movie was separated into two screens, so we can clearly to see what is the difference between grandfather and grandson their livelihood. I was surprised that two relatives presented opposite life, the grandfather need the drugs to keep his live, but the grandson just wanted to take drugs made him high. However, two characters showed part of their life very thoroughly and vividly.

Overall, Eldon Booth presented the great technical about his experimental video work and the great subject matter, and body of work. Therefore, after watched his work I felt more understood about his wonderful interpretation of video work, also more realized what does his personality is and personal ideas.