weimar cinema VS modern artist Mike Hoolboom's short movies

The main of the Weimar cinemas are black and white and with no sound. The art still reflect the political or social structure. For example, the film called, Rogge in Metropolis by Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein. It describes the highly industrials in that period. Workers work for basic living and they control by big capitalists. The art feeling is not personal experience or narrow-mind. The artists are more focus on the whole society, such as the economic system of Germany, the gender perspective, and the modern theory. I think it dependents the society.

Nowadays, in peaceful North American, fully developed countries, most artists are likely to do their own interests more than political issues. The recent show is an artist names is Mike Hoolboom in Art Gallery of York University which I volunteer at there. Mike's idea is focus on human living. The image world of film is a world we already share. Not merely entertainment, movies are patterns we grow into, but more than just as role models. Mike Hoolboom derives his films from a montage of images drawn from Hollywood film, found footage, and home movies. He pillages others' products to produce streams of images stripped from their original narratives, but when the images are put back together according to another logic they now flow like a dream. In Hoolboom's hands, film becomes an aqueous world shot through with light as if it was an embryonic fluid in which a form of consciousness comes to birth.