Red

Red is a very captivating color. It is known to be the most attractive to the eye and it is a fact that your eyes always jump to something red first. The color red in the film we watched was used so much it was almost disorienting. It came in different shades and forms, but the almost constant presence of the color made my imagination wander. The film had a way of giving me many different thoughts of what was actually happening. At some points I almost believed that it might have been shot on another planet. I feel that using this eye-catching color helped create much contrast for anything else that might be in the frame. It is a good way to make the viewer think about where they might be, but also what the contrasting object in the frame is. Smithson does like to work with content that lends the viewer to multiple thoughts and red is a good way to do it. Seeing as how most of the terrain was some shade of red, it made disorientation very easy. I'm not sure if it works for everyone, but I know it did for me. I found myself wondering most of the time of where I might be if I was there and it made my mind wander on what else I would be seeing in this unknown territory.