Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam as an animator produces a unique, abstract and surreal blend of recontextualized photo's and graphics images from the media and his own drawings

A quote from Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam from The Believer - March 2003 issue, found at:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200303/?read=interview_gilliam


"TG: But with storytelling, we do suspend our disbelief, and we go with it. As long as it’s truthful, as long as it’s based on truthful things, we can go anywhere.
SR: Well, it’s exactly that. It’s the difference between what is naturalistic and what is truth. And in a way fiction—movies, books, whatever—allows you to get to certain truths which you can’t get to so easily by naturalistic fiction. I mean, the world is not a naturalistic place. Buildings may fall down. The world is not like kitchen-sink drama; the world is this weird, operatic place.
TG: Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it—I do actually like it because it says certain things. It’s about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we’re just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television’s saying, everything’s saying “That’s the world.” And it’s not the world. The world is a million possible things.
SR: And the world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world."

A photograph of a histortic statue as I've already said, carries a huge context already with it - The images I'm projecting on to them are to show an alternative perception of the same subject; whether it be war (an easy target), fantasy (including mythology and religion), a blend or anything else a monument could represent. 

I thought of using computer games as the alternative, but any media can be used.  Computer games have the advantage of it being an immersive simulated reality - and the possibility of using a 3D model to create a trick that's hard to explain, but easy to show if I can create an example (coming soon!)

In reading on Gilliam's philosophy I come across the philosophy of Mark Weber's 'Iron Cage' - a subject of the containing of our perceptions of the world -I should look into further.