| The Films Within Independent Exposure - Animation Edition 2005 | |||
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Kunstbar
directed by Steve Whitehouse Canada, Animation, 2002, Flash Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:55 A thirsty man attempts to answer the question: "What would happen if you drank an Yves Tanguy?"... ... more info | ||
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Vision Point
directed by Stephen Arthur Canada, Animation, 1999, Still Photos, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:27 "Landscape pixilation" is used to express and abstract our direct relationship to the land of Western Canada in a powerfully surreal and visionay way. ... more info | ||
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Side Show
directed by Edie Faig USA, Animation, 2001, 35mm, Color, 00:09:00 It's all fun and games until somebody loses an arm...... more info | ||
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Text Field
directed by Jake Messenger and Chirstinn Whyte United Kingdom, Animation, 2002, DV, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 A single continuous take of improvised movement, translated into an ascii-based animation, with a soundtrack generated by a computer read-out of the sequence's final frame.... more info | ||
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Disintegrated Memory Lapse
directed by Carl Nolting USA, Animation, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:22 Disintegrated Memory Lapse is a short experimental film exploring the visual memory of emotions and feelings associated with an individual through a time based medium. Each frame was rotoscoped and then composited on top of the original video source. The blending of the paint strokes and video creates a hybrid of realism and interpretation.... more info | ||
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Brand New Triathalon
directed by Rick Raxlen USA, Animation, 2003, 16mm, Color, Optical, 00:08:30 Using bits of book illustrations from how to books on bowling and cricket and a photo-study of taichi positions,and some cheap stencils of frogs, and hearts and a bit of text relating to the sports, I cobbled together a pastiche/melange of ink drawings,tracings,cutouts,and smudgy dry-brush abstractions with a crescendo-building track of gamelon music from a Seattle cd entitled Trance Gong...... more info | ||
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5 a.m.
directed by Michiel van Bakel Netherlands, Animation, 2002, The film was recorded using 32 digital video camer, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:15 A video that plays a refined game with slices of time in the city of Rotterdam. The matter-of-fact presence of a police-horsewoman on the large square that is the historic center, changes into a surrealist and heroic mo(nu)ment. The film was recorded using 32 digital video cameras simultaneously. ... more info | ||
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Birdon
directed by Chieh Huang USA, Animation, 2003, 3D Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 This is a short story about a bird in a birdcage. Will we ever know the true world is outside of the birdcage?... more info | ||
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Aurora
directed by Michael Betancourt USA, Animation, 2001, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 When the solar wind crosses the Earth's magnetic field, streaks, waves and curtains of faint light appear in the night sky. Ancient people who saw these patterns thought that they were spirits, demons, or gods.... more info | ||
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Amazilia
directed by Brian Evans USA, Animation, 2004, Computer Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:15 Everything reduces to data mapping and information design. The only hard question is why we do either. I never got past a fascination with numbers, a desire to write songs, a desire to make pictures. All is number in the computer. I take numeric models and see what songs and pictures they will make. How can I map numbers to the senses—turn numbers into a tangible experience? Then I wonder how the senses map to each other. I map the maps. Sound to image—a visualization. Image to sound—a sonification. In mapping numbers into sensory experience, aesthetic decisions are made. What palette of colors to use? What set of pitches? How long? How big? The artist chooses. In a digital world the ... more info | ||
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250mg
directed by Marianna Ellenberg United Kingdom, Experimental, 2002, Super-8mm/DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30 In 250mg®, fragmented pieces of Amoxicillan capsules, hairs and nails are animated in a whimsical montage of light and color, creating a contemporary vision of bodily functions, ailments and cures, punctuated by Dymaxion¹s seductive, overdubbed beats.... more info | ||
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Lake Qualm - December the 3rd, 2004
directed by Paul Fletcher USA, Animation, 2004, DVD Pal Video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:50 A visit to Lake Qualm a transient place and memory space. Recollections and provocations of both calm and unease. Metamorphosing abstract images and patterns are integrated with photographic records and digital landscapes. Layered constructions of visual and aural movement serve as metaphoric stand ins for emotion and memory, narrative episodes and developments. A messy but deliberate audio-visual concrete`... more info | ||
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Unearthed
directed by Christina Spangler USA, Animation, 2002, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:08:00 After a blind struggle for life against a hungry ferret, an unearthed potato is given a wondrous glimpse into the visible world. Using its newfound sight, the curious tuber happens upon a discarded bag of potato chips and must then come to terms with its own mortality. ... more info | ||
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Berio
directed by Elina Roditou United Kingdom, Animation, 2004, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30 Berio is based on the last interview the composer Berio had given. In this interview he said that he wanted his musicians to know their instruments, as well their history, and he wanted them to use the instruments and every single part of them to the extreme in order to create. The video tries to depict this through visuals, and it is showing what Berio believed, which is that music can be found in everything. ... more info | ||
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Algorithmen
directed by Bärbel Neubauer Germany, Animation, 1994, 35mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:03:17 Metamorphoses of colour and form which are painted , drawn and stamped on blank film directly and which are corresponding to rhythm and music. There were used self made stamps an leaves for stamping. ... more info | ||
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Lovers Supplant
directed by Norma V Toraya USA, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:08 Lovers Supplant is an animated short about a femme fatale who creeps along in the night with an objective (abduction of a blissful female) and a motive (to be with the man she loves and role she deserves).... more info | ||
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Winter/En Hiver
directed by Andy Collen USA, Animation, 2004, 35mm, B&W/Color, Optical, 00:06:00 A transformation of innocense through the journey of life, a gentle drama about a young girl who endures life in the face of anticipatory loss.... more info | ||
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Childhood
directed by Shizuko Tabata Japan, Experimental, 2001, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30 Is the memory of your childhood a happy or sad one? Everything has gone to the past, but we can only look forward.... more info | ||