As a springboard from all the portrait work I’ve done over the past three years, I, at some time during that process, became really attuned/enamored/moved by people’s faces and started experimenting with a new creative study. Internally we’re calling it “60”. In short, it’s really simple: I’m taking 60 second video portraits of people. No instruction, no direction, no coaching, nothing. Just the camera pointed at them for a minute.
Although the concept is simple, I’ve found the results to be pretty interesting. At a fundamental level, the human face says a lot, even without the person saying anything at all.
While I’ve been at this for a while, I thought it would be time to start sharing some of these portraits here on the blog. This chase jarvis 60 features world-renowned explorer Mike Horn. You may remember Mike from my Pangaea experience across the South China Sea with Panerai watches. [Lots of posts here, here, and here.] It was a life changing experience for me, and a good bit of it was getting to know Mike. Hopefully you’ll get to know him a little here as well.
Love to know your thoughts.
[aside: if you are interested in seeing these videos when I post them to youtube, rather than just the occasional ones that make it here to the blog, you’re invited to subscribe to my youtube channel here. thx]
Shout out to McKenzie Stubbert for the music.
so eyes are really the portal to the soul! i feel as if i have glimpsed into his past. so cool!
Very cool Chase! I remember seeing a Vanity Fair issue back in 2006 where this guy Robert Wilson did these high budget video portraits of celebrities and thinking how cool that could be to bring flavors of that into some of the work I was doing at the time. As it happens, life happens and I put it on the shelf and all but forgot about it until you made this post. Thank you for bringing this back to my mind!
Here is a link to the Vanity Fair article I was talking about:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/12/wilson200612
Thanks Chase for the kick in the butt!
Clayton Cubitt has been doing 5-minute “Long Portraits” for a few years. Vimeo even dedicated an “homage” project to his work. Some here: http://vimeo.com/album/56662
Chase, at first glance I thought this was an excuse for a post but I am humbled by the result. This test reminds me of an article I read today in the WSJ about psychologists using dogs as assistants for their perceptiveness (pioneered by Freud); perhaps “they” should take note of your incredibly revealing experiment. Kudos
I would have to agree with Steve T. above. We always hear that in film the soundtrack is at least 50% of the message. If that is the case then in a study like this the choice of music brings a subjectivity into an objective study.
I love the idea though. Don’t think I would have thought of this one. Love you work and your philosophy in your work, your art and your passion. Thanks.