Steel homes by Eva Webber

This short "documented" the use of steel storage containers to place your possessions in. There are two possible ways of reading the film, firstly as a cold harsh view of the Steel Homes represented by the detached often depressing voice overs coupled with cold steel lines and partitioned boxed up memories. This view is quite prominent and the view I first identified with the Doc however there is another way of seeing it. It is described by Webber as a look at "the fragmented nature of memories, set in the starkly beautiful aesthetic of our modern industrial world". This prompts a different view of a more positive representation of the Steel Homes in which people enjoy their nostalgic boxes. This is somewhat supported in some of the speech of the Steel Home users however I believe that to tell this message efficiently a more personal approach to the contents would have given it a more posative feeling. The camera work and composition throughout was excellent despite the cold colour pallet and harsh straight lines but again if the aim was to present the Steel Homes positivity it was counter productive. Overall I didn't much like the Doc as I felt it gave mixed messages toward what I thought was a fairly positive thing but it was still thought provoking and definitely what I expect from a documentary.